Blossom

i just played this song for my sister for the first time last night. I told her it was kind of sad. The first two lines especially. Good song for a sad, rainy day.

hits home of a friend i care a whole lot about, but they cant feel it, or anything for that matter, as they feel they are alone and have nothing they have nothing to become

i love this song, so beautiful as most of Ryan's stuff is.

"I've got this one spirit that's laying roses on me. Roses, roses, can't get enough of those bloody roses. The rose is the most prominent image in the human brain, as to delicacy, beauty, short-livedness, thorniness. It's a whole. There is no better allegory for, dare I say it, life, than roses." - Robert Hunter

this is another sweet one off of Cold Roses. the whole album is more or less a tribute to the musical genius of the grateful dead, and seeing as robert hunter's most common muse was the rose it's only logical that ryan adams would do the same in the tribute.

roses are beautiful but when you grow flowers you need to tend them otherwise they'll get raggedy unkempt. people are like that, too - most things are like that.

I think it’s about how kids can be nurtured into happy people if they have people who love them. Without it, you would lead a troubled life.