How Can You Give Up? Lyrics

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Cover art for How Can You Give Up? lyrics by 'Til Tuesday

Dazzling along a terrible thread There were three little girls All of one grace And six little feet in a marche militaire

They were her roses—they were my roses That sparkled a moment in the morning sun (We made the roses fade that were not our roses) My roses—her roses P.S. and so we forgot the roses …

Cabaret Three red flames light up by themselves—a torch “I waltz only with him.” There flared up a struggle which has not even yet Come to an end It seems, I did not crush it enough So to avoid him, she takes a side road Here the stones are of a different color The hedgerows less well-pruned—more friendly Soon the sky clears Open to the event