Wild Roses Lyrics

Wild roses growing in the ditch

Where your mother and your father used to live

Wild sparrow sits upon the wire

Lightning strikes the forest down on fire

Prairie grasses swaying in the breeze

In the backyard where you used to fall asleep

Empty bottles scattered all around

Shaken like a leaf you hit the ground

Nestled in the grass

There's a cross that we drive past

Every morning on our way back into town

Marking off the place

There's a shrine a sacred space

Where you crashed your car into

The slough and drowned

Winter spring and summer come and gone

Before my eyes a subtle setting sun

Dark of night sneaks up on us so soon

You've become the silver on the moon

Nestled in the grass

There's a cross that we drive past

Every morning on our way back into town

Marking off the place

There's a shrine a sacred space

Where you crashed your car into

The slough and drowned