Coming Up Roses — Elliott Smith

Verse

I'm a junkyard full of false starts And I don't need your permission To bury my love under this bare light bulb

Chorus

The moon is a sickle cell It'll kill you in time Your cold white brother riding your blood Like spun glass in sore eyes While the moon does its division You're buried below And you're coming up roses everywhere you go Red roses follow

Solo: G A C G A C G A

Chorus

The things that you tell yourself They'll kill you in time Your cold white brother alive in your blood Spinning in the night sky While the moon does its division You're buried below And you're coming up roses everywhere you go Red roses So you got in a kind of trouble That nobody knows It's coming up roses everywhere you go Red roses