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Rose in Paradise Lyrics
She was a flower for the takin', her beauty cut just like a knife...
He was a banker from Macon, he swore he'd love her all a his life...
He bought her a mansion on the mountain,
with a formal garden and a lot a land...
But paradise became her prison, that Georgia banker was a jealous man!
Every time he'd talk about her, you could see the fi-er in his eyes...
He'd say,
"I would walk through Hell on Sunday, to keep my Rose in Paradise...
He hired a man to tend the garden,
and keep an eye on her while he was gone..
Some say they ran away together... Some say that gardner left alone...
Now the banker is an old man... that mansion's crum-ble-ing down...
He sits all day and he stares at the garden... not a trace of her was
ever found...
Every time he'd talk about her, you could see the fi-er in his eyes...
He'd say,
"I would walk through Hell on Sunday, to keep my Rose in Paradise...
Now there's a rose out in the garden... its beauty cuts just like a knife...
They say that it even grows in the winter time...
and blooms in the dead of the night...
He was a banker from Macon, he swore he'd love her all a his life...
with a formal garden and a lot a land...
He'd say,
"I would walk through Hell on Sunday, to keep my Rose in Paradise...
and keep an eye on her while he was gone..
ever found...
He'd say,
"I would walk through Hell on Sunday, to keep my Rose in Paradise...
and blooms in the dead of the night...
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The last verse is kind of unclear. I never really did get why the idea of rose was used. The rose as the woman would be way too cliché, it has to mean something more... but i don't know what. Anyone?
@bank_robert I'm pretty sure this song is about murder. It's a short story of a man who met a woman he became obsessed over. So much that he kept her away in his mansion to which he murdered her. I also believe the rose signifies her beauty and the place of her grave. I'm not sure who the gardener is though
@bank_robert I'm pretty sure this song is about murder. It's a short story of a man who met a woman he became obsessed over. So much that he kept her away in his mansion to which he murdered her. I also believe the rose signifies her beauty and the place of her grave. I'm not sure who the gardener is though
@hunter1076 thanks for your contribution to this topic. Interesting interpretation. I think this song remains quite mysterious, as we never learn what happened to the girl, and to the gardener (and who was the gardener). A murder seems convincing, but then "no trace of her was ever found"? If he murdered her, why there would be no body? It might be a hint that she actually ran away with the gardener (a possible secret lover?). I don't know, I guess it's meant to confuse the listener and stay unclear.
@hunter1076 thanks for your contribution to this topic. Interesting interpretation. I think this song remains quite mysterious, as we never learn what happened to the girl, and to the gardener (and who was the gardener). A murder seems convincing, but then "no trace of her was ever found"? If he murdered her, why there would be no body? It might be a hint that she actually ran away with the gardener (a possible secret lover?). I don't know, I guess it's meant to confuse the listener and stay unclear.
@bank_robert Yes, it was murder and he buried her in the garden which is why she was never found.
@bank_robert Yes, it was murder and he buried her in the garden which is why she was never found.
'he'd walk thru hell on Sunday' to keep her - or obviously commit murder to keep her from running or being with the gardener there's a rose (and her name was Rose) now that grows in the garden and it's beauty ALSO cuts like a knife and it even grows in the wintertime and glows in the 'dead' of the night so it must be very special now he sits and stares all day at the garden nobody ever heard a trace of...
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@bank_robert Yes, it was murder and he buried her in the garden which is why she was never found.
@bank_robert Yes, it was murder and he buried her in the garden which is why she was never found.
'he'd walk thru hell on Sunday' to keep her - or obviously commit murder to keep her from running or being with the gardener there's a rose (and her name was Rose) now that grows in the garden and it's beauty ALSO cuts like a knife and it even grows in the wintertime and glows in the 'dead' of the night so it must be very special now he sits and stares all day at the garden nobody ever heard a trace of...
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