A Good Year For the Roses (Jerry Chestnut Cover)

I can hardly stand the sight of lipstick

On the cigarettes there in the ash tray

Lying cold the way you left them

But at least your lips carressed them while you packed

Or the lip print on a half-filled cup of coffee

That you poured and didn't drink

But at least you thought you wanted it

and that's so much more than I can say for me.



It's been a good year for the roses

Many blooms still linger there

The lawn could stand another mowin'

Funny, I don't even care

But as you turned and walked away

As the door behind you closes

The only thing I thought to say

Is, "What a good year for the roses".



After three, four years of marriage

It's the first time that you haven't made the bed

I guess the reason we're not talking

There's so little left to say we haven't said

Oh, while a million thoughts go racin' through my mind

I guess I haven't said a word

And from the bedroom

The familiar sound of our one baby's crying goes unheard.



But what a good year for the roses

Many blooms still linger there

The lawn could stand another mowin'

Funny, I don't even care

But as you turned and walked away

As the door behind you closes

The only thing I thought to say

Is, "What a good year for the roses".