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  Cover RferdytdJPG
  Name Roses For The Dead
  Type Single
  Artist Funeral For A Friend
  Released 20 February 2006
  Recorded 2005
  Genre Post-hardcore
  Length 4:06
  Label Atlantic Records
  Last Single '' History '' <br /> (2006)
  This Single '''''Roses For The Dead'''''<br />(2006)
  Next Single '' Into Oblivion (Reunion) '' <br> (2007)



TRACK DETAILS


Matt Davies wrote this song about the death of one of his close friends. In an issue of Kerrang! magazine in an interview he said he saw everyone else grieving and felt weird because he wasn't crying, and he just took everything in.

Matt Davies on Roses for the Dead:
"A heavy song, but not in the way metal is typically considered to be

"heavy" . This is about the death of close friends; I saw my friends

and family all grieving but I didn't know how to react. I felt odd

because I wasn't crying, I sat there and took it all in. I wanted to

pay tribute to the memory of those people, who I missed so much, and to

express that"

In the album booklet it says:
"Dedicated to the memory of Lianne Davies and Lloyd Bird, eternally loved and never forgotten"


LYRICS


Just to say we're sorry,
For the black eyes and bleeding lips.
And it's hard to forget
How many lies we've told.

Or how old we'd grow,
Before I said goodbye.
So let's scrape our knees on the playground.

It's not your fault,
You feel okay.
It's too late in the day.
It's not your fault,
You feel betrayed.
You can't come out to play.

I never listened to a word you never said.
I never listened to a word you never said.

Wasting the hours now,
We're all suckers for tragedies.
And start this over again,
And you bring us to our knees.

As sunrise comes,
And the story will sell,
A few hundred papers,
So we'll follow you up.

It's not your fault,
You feel okay.
It's too late in the day.
It's not your fault,
You feel betrayed.
You can't come out to play.

I never listened to a word you never said.
I never listened to a word you never said.

So raise your hands up high,
And let this rain pour on.
So raise your hands up high,
And wash us away.

Like innocence and childbirth,
You look just like your mother
And you look just like your father.
Forgive him our father,
Your son is smiling,
So lay roses around you.

(4.06)


TRACK LISTINGS


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