The morning we moved in this house   You said let's make a bed of roses   So hand in hand we found that special place   And I broke the ground      I wiped that delta dirt from your face   As you knelt there to sow them   Oh, I'd give anything a mortal man   Could give if you could see them now      Through the kitchen windowpane   I can see the roses   The ones we planted that first spring are blooming   Like they did when you were here      Someone's always left behind   When the door of this life closes   So I sit alone and watch it rain   On our bed of roses      Some days I sit for hours at the time   Just stirring at those roses   They seem so young and full of life   But soon they'll face the winter chill      I don't know how long I can survive   But one thing that I know is   Come spring time the roses will return   But you never will      Through the kitchen windowpane   Lord, I can see the roses   The ones we planted that first spring are blooming   Like they did when you were here      Someone's always left behind   When the door of this life closes   So I sit alone and watch it rain   On our bed of roses   So I sit alone and watch it rain   On our bed of roses