"The roses on the lawn
Don't know which side you're on"
The roses don't know if you are above or below the dirt, don't know if you are dead and buried or walking around. One side of the dirt is the living and the other the dead.
"One in your life
It happens once and rarely twice"
You die, once in your life you die. I don't think this was a reference to love, some people fall in love all the time, it's not something that happens only once. It is rare but some people have reported coming back from the dead, out of body experiences that sort of thing.
My first impression was this song is about death.
"The roses on the lawn Don't know which side you're on"
The roses don't know if you are above or below the dirt, don't know if you are dead and buried or walking around. One side of the dirt is the living and the other the dead.
"One in your life It happens once and rarely twice"
You die, once in your life you die. I don't think this was a reference to love, some people fall in love all the time, it's not something that happens only once. It is rare but some people have reported coming back from the dead, out of body experiences that sort of thing.