Sounds to me like this song is a woman getting pregnant and not telling her boyfriend about it until well into the pregnancy. He wants her to get an abortion. I'm not sure if she does or not, to be honest, but he leaves her either way.
The eponymous black roses might be a reference to the fat that she did get an abortion in spite of her Catholic upbringing, or to the argument that they had over it when she resisted.
Lines like "you can't catch me and you never will" are obviously referring to the man refusing to raise a child or pay child support.
Sounds to me like this song is a woman getting pregnant and not telling her boyfriend about it until well into the pregnancy. He wants her to get an abortion. I'm not sure if she does or not, to be honest, but he leaves her either way.
The eponymous black roses might be a reference to the fat that she did get an abortion in spite of her Catholic upbringing, or to the argument that they had over it when she resisted.
Lines like "you can't catch me and you never will" are obviously referring to the man refusing to raise a child or pay child support.