Roses

I'm really not sure about the meaning to this song, but since no one else has commented yet, I may aswell make a completely wrong guess! Haha. I think he's using roses as a symbol of hope and beauty, in saying that even in the worst scenes, with "shaking scenery", there can still be beauty found.

love the line "I have rumbled quite a feast" yeh i thought it was the beautiful things like roses among the horrible things like the bitter end of blushing brides and cosmonauts. there's kind of a kiddyish feel in the "blushing brides and cosmonauts" line, like his most precious childhood dreams or plans have been destroyed, now he has to pretend things are going to be ok. i just cant get over his voice! it's really lovely but also so sad

I don't know, I mean, I see this song as a man (or woman) trying desperately to delude themselves. "Roses help me to pretend". It's the idea that the world is a horrifying, almost insane place, and we all end up alone in the end. The roses he/she sees as something simple; there's no great moral problems or pain in flowers. But they do link to other ideas, such as the blood, the seasons etc. A little depressing but hey, I'm probably wrong! Awesome song though haha

I will get to the song 'Roses', but first I have to describe parts of the former songs in order to describe that particular one...

It's a very typical rock album/genius poet album in the sense that the writer appears to be telling a story/making his point by connecting the songs as opposed to just having random songs placed one after another. They all line up and bounce off one another.

It's also a very political album with a 'left' leaning outlook (and in-look). Starting right from the off with "Remember me in Harrys bar? Poking holes in the so called left" - Thirst For Romance. This immediately implies that the writer is likely a socialist, the character is also clearly a father or simply just a more responsible and mature adult figure in the relationship. Which in turn gives the impression that his political & philosophical thinking may also be more distinguished and possibly wiser than our own - seeing as we are the child in this relationship, it is after all 'us' who he is speaking to through the speaker - we are the intended listener, we are the undergruduate if you like.. though he does not mean to belittle us for he says "remember me" as if we were once children that he encouraged but now he speaks to us as adults in a way that he wants us to remember a happier time 'together'.. its the amount of care and love that's involved in the relationship that matters, not who dominates in any way.

He cares about you/us more than anything or anyone else in this world, we all know most fathers (much like the father that is the "priest" he "traces the footsteps" of) want only what's best for us, the father will try his best to look after us despite all their faults and mistakes (its what they want deep down - only the best possible outcome), this love is unconditional. This is also how we know we can trust him, his aim is true to love "People Help The People". As is also much of the lefts policies true to love in such a way they seek to help the most vulnerable people in society by taking on the most powerful. The "so called left" ('capitalism lite') are merely two sides to the same coin of the party they claim to be in opposition of. He on the other hand is a socialist - think Corbyn, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Bernie Sanders etc. He sees the so called left as imposters in his party, which really you could almost say they are, because in order to keep a two party democracy reasonably healthy you must have one capitalist party and one socialist, not two capitalists - that's called oligarchy. The reverse would be known as communism.

Clearly more to be said about those songs, but as for 'Roses'.. the political points I had to make til now are relevant as the rose is a symbol that is often used by the left. You'll see it on the main logo of the Labour Party for instance, or simply just at the end of a party members social media message sometimes, next to their profile name etc. It's very much a lefty thing (and not just in the UK). So, if I had to make a bet, i'd bet on this song being something to do with that - Labour perhaps. Perhaps again attacking the so called left? from a green perspective? I don't know.. but its what I like to pretend ;)

Blushing brides and cosmonauts sounds a lot like rhyming slang.. in reference to US capitalisms main opposition during the Cold War - Russian Communism. I could be completely wrong... but I can't see why else he'd use that language and that particular description of two people in the same sentence. A cosmonaut is a Russian astronaut and when I think of a blushing bride 'next' to a cosmonaut my mind is automatically drawn back to the times of 1950s Russia... a time when cosmonauts were all over the telly due to the space race.. and also a time where women or 'brides' would apply make-up in such a way they would go over the top with the 'blush' they applied to their cheeks (am I wrong?). In my mind at least, he has basically wrapped up the ideal picture of a superstar couple from 1950's Russia in one simple sentence, and that just seems to suggest he is making a symbolic gesture towards communism. And from the sounds of it - its bitter end. Which he seems fearful and sorrowful about.