CHORUS:

Purple roses, getting purple roses it was not your time.

Purple roses, giving purple roses it should be a crime.

Who's been there right from the start? To have them come to tear apart.

And now I have to bring these purple roses.



VERSE 1:

It started, when you were in my mama's womb.

I saw you there, and I never thought, I would see you in the tomb.

I was so excited, you were coming here.

A friend of my own, a baby doll, I was so filled with cheer.

Raised you up, to the woman today.

And it broke me down, when you went away. Purple Roses, yeah.



BRIDGE:

How you gonna leave me, Lord know I wasn't ready,

I'm so scared to let you go.

This pain it runs so deep, some nights I can't sleep

So lost in my mental (2X's)



CHORUS:

Purple roses, getting purple roses it was not your time.

Purple roses, giving purple roses it should be a crime.

Who's been there right from the start? To have them come to tear apart.

And now I have to bring these purple roses.



VERSE 2:

They turned you against me. Spreading lies all through your head.

And when they were through with you they sent you back to me dead.

I want you to live, I just want you to be free.

But you sign your death warrant, the day you turned your back on me.

I was the only one who really cared for you.

Cuz I was left all alone, when I had to bury you. Purple roses.



BRIDGE:

How you gonna leave me, Lord know I wasn't ready,

I'm so scared to let you go.

This pain it runs so deep, some nights I can't sleep

So lost in my mental (2X's)



CHORUS (SOLO):

Purple roses, getting purple roses it was not your time.

Purple roses, giving purple roses it should be a crime.

Who's been there right from the start? To have them come to tear apart.

And now I have to bring these purple roses.