SEARCH HERE: BROWSE 409412 LYRICS BY ARTIST/BAND NAME: #A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SITE MENU Last Updates Request Lyrics Submit / Correct Popularity Charts VISITORS Login / Register Your Thoughts My Playlists [ More Conway Twitty lyrics ] add to playlist     see a mistake?    comment Artist/Band: Conway Twitty Lyrics for Song: I Threw Away the Rose Lyrics for Album: Conway Twitty Country [1978] (Merle Haggard) Once I lived a life of wine and roses And I drank a lot back then for one concern Success for me lay just around the corner I thought my social friends would help me make the turn. But now I'm paying for the days of wine and roses A victim of the drunken life I chose Now all my social friends look down their noses 'Cause I kept the wine and threw away the rose. --- Instrumental --- I stood by and watched the bottle take a man of me The turn I made was not the one I'd planned And I watched my social friends slip away from me While I watched the bottle slowly take command. But now I'm paying for the days of wine and roses A victim of the drunken life I chose Now all my social friends look down their noses 'Cause I kept the wine and threw away the rose... 'Cause I kept the wine and threw away the rose... Album Lyrics: Conway Twitty Country [1978] Conway Twitty "Conway Twitty Country [1978]" 1. Working Girl 2. But I Dropped It 3. Things Have Gone to Pieces 4. Two of the Usual 5. Life Turned Her that Way 6. Go Woman Go 7. Don't Put Your Hurt in My Heart 8. I Threw Away the Rose 9. A Wound Time Can't Erase