A Rose At Night Lyrics

A Rose At Night lyrics

Here she comes like a Queen all through the wintertime



Skirts that billow long after she's gone



Yes I could smell her smell on the pillow late at night



She's a rose that blooms at night







And all the streets were wet and slicked with rain



Outside my green front door



Number 48 seemed dull by comparison



I went on down to the pub to stock up for the long night by myself



That's one way out of this cold and lonely world



Yes I'll be a rose that blooms tonight







The city's quiet



The rioters have all gone home now



The fire brigades' sirens have been locked up for the night



There's a blackout down on Brown Street



Where all the blues come home



And yes there's a rose that blooms at night







Now Jim he packed up all his bags and said



"It's time to get out of here"



But his wife and children they were crying out in the kitchen



Out in the back



Once a year he remembers that scene 



But it seems so long ago now



He tries to remember but he can't



You don't look back



Memories - they're like a rose that blooms at night







There's a clock that never strikes



In the Town Hall's towers of steel



There's a road that's never used



It's never kissed with the hiss of wheel



In your mouth is a rusted brace



That you flash with your junkyard smile



Shine on like a rose at night







*written by Bob Geldof



*taken from the album "The Vegetarians of Love"