Black Rose

BLACK ROSE

She was born in Ontario
In the land where the cold winds blow
Across the lake from my home town
She was closer then, I could touch her, Black Rose

It’s a long way to California
That’s where she’s living now I’ve been told
A brand new life -- a brand new name
as for me, I still call her Black Rose

Life hits you too hard
Anger, tears, heartache and pain
Undoing what love had made
Revealing the pain that remains
And it hurts so bad, it hurts baby, so bad

Her childhood was anything but good
Battered by her father I’ve been told
And her mother - she saved her ---mothers always do
she’d protect her precious, wounded Black Rose

It’s a long way to California
the only road she really could have chose
Such a dark road --- strewn with broken men
fallen lovers of my perfect Black Rose

Life hits you too hard
Anger, tears, heartache and pain
Undoing what love had made
Revealing the pain that remains
And it hurts so bad, it hurts baby, so bad

It’s a long way to California
Guess I’m kind of tempted I suppose
I could leave Steeltown before sundown
And reclaim her, and rename her Black Rose

Life hits you too hard
Anger, tears, heartache and pain
Undoing what love had made
Revealing the pain that remains
And it hurts so bad, it hurts baby, so bad