Rose

this is what i hear:

"my beds are always empty if you don't count the ghosts cause i have those aplenty and his name is rose its name is rose

so dear rose, is home this sack of skin? or is home somewhere i've been so i can trace back my tracks i can trace back my tracks

romance in me is dwindling should i be wanting it back? so i can trace back my tracks i can trace back i need some of that wonder bread my blood, dark red some things not said, not said"

its hard to tell what this song is about. at first i thought he was someone haunted by the ghost of rose, but after listening to it again i think he might be the ghost. he could be recalling that his name was rose, but since ghosts walk outside of their body he refers to himself in the third person (his name is rose). the second time he says its name is rose, as if confused at trying to remember who he was in life.

wonderbread represents the normalcy (sp.?) which, as a ghost, he craves. the part about dark red blood could be a memory of his death or a longing for being mortal again. i think instead of meaning romance literally, since no one else is mentioned in the song, he means that he is becoming disenchanted with his existence and watches his interest in his life fade while wondering if he should pursue it.

some things not said= regrets. he is asking rose, or himself when he was alive, what home is, whether his existence lay in his physical body, or if he returns to the places he lived, could he recapture what it meant to be alive? sry for the long explanation. this is an amazing song, especially the second verse.