Dead Flowers

Verse

Dead flowers in in a dry vase.

A note stained with tears.

Years waiting on a promise

That he’d reappear.

Pre chorus

A holiday weekend love affair

With a married guy.

A promise he never meant to keep.

A love based on lies.

Chorus

The flowers were symbolic

A temporary thing.

To enjoy for a moment

Not like a wedding ring.

Verse

She kept the two wine glasses

Would fill them when she dined.

She would touch her glass to his.

Dream of his brown eyes.

Pre chorus

A holiday weekend love affair

With a married guy.

A promise he never meant to keep.

A love based on lies.

Chorus

The flowers were symbolic

A temporary thing.

To enjoy for a moment

Not like a wedding ring.

Verse

Read the note a thousand times

Still don’t think it’s true.

It’s written there in black and white.

Says I don’t love you.

Bridge

Wasted years, wasted tears

Youth passed her by.

She cherished those dead flowers

Held on to a lie.

Pre chorus

A holiday weekend love affair

With a married guy.

A promise he never meant to keep.

A love based on lies.

Chorus

The flowers were symbolic

A temporary thing.

To enjoy for a moment

Not like a wedding ring.