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Asking for Flowers
by Kathleen Edwards
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Overall Rating:
1.3024
Avg. Critic Score:
2.4000
Asking for Flowers Lyrics
Lyrics
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- The summer months left me alone
- But the fall rolled in on the back of a storm
- In the night you and I drove
- Have you ever seen lightning and snow?
- All these weeks without a note
- It's like a ticking clock
- Every time that you phone
- I've run aground truth be told
- And when it comes to me
- I'll let you know
- Don't be like that
- Just my luck an Irish rose
- In a drinking hole
- I'd played a thousand one shows
- What you need is to just go home
- And when it comes to you
- Don't leave it alone
- Don't be like that
- Up ahead the roads were closed
- And the Gennys ran most of Buffalo
- The customs man at border control
- Said yes you can go
- But you won't make it home
- Don't be like that
- A is for all the times I bit my tongue
- B is for bullshit and you fed me some
- C is for charity and now you're mine
- D is for dollars but you're counting dimes
- E is the exit sign backstage at shows
- F is my favourite letter, as you know
- G is for God loves a patient man
- Who spends his days living in ego-land
- You always write it in the cheapest key
- You always blame it on the cheapest key
- You always play me in the cheapest key
- They say the start's always the hardest part
- But like you know, baby, I'm all warmed up
- Sometimes I want to shout your name out loud
- And let them in on what you're all about
- You always write it in the cheapest key
- You always blame it on the cheapest key
- You always play me in the cheapest key
- Don't write me off
- Here comes my softer side
- And there it goes
- 'Cause I've been on the road too long to sympathize
- With what you think you're owed
- You always write it in the cheapest key
- You always blame it on the cheapest key
- You always play me in the cheapest key
- It's complicated
- Technically I'm certified
- A walking declaration
- Of everything I couldn't get right
- Time is just an anchor
- But 7 years I think I'm right
- Now you've changed your number
- It's like a noose around my life
- Every pill I took in vain
- Every meal for you I made
- Every penny I put away
- Asking for flowers
- Is like asking you to be nice
- Don't tell me you're too tired
- 10 years I've been working nights
- My life is like a picture left
- Out too long in the sun
- Now I'm trying to remember all
- The faces of the names i've loved
- And all that's left of me now is
- A cigarette burning bright
- And a fading memory of all the things
- I tried to get right
- Every pill I took in vain
- Every meal for you I made
- Every penny I put away
- Asking for flowers
- Is like asking you to be nice
- Don't tell me you're too tired
- 10 years I've been working nights
- Every pill I took in vain
- Every meal for you I made
- Every bill I went and paid
- Every card I signed my name
- Every time I poured my heart out
- Every threat you made to move out
- Every cruel word you let just slip out
- Every cruel word you let just slip out
- I am a girl with a forgettable face
- No matter my colour, no matter my name
- At work there is a boy and he treats me well
- My old friends from high school,
- I see them around
- August is here I can't believe how fast
- Soon there will be winter and snow on the ground
- Maybe by then I could get my own place
- Closer to the city if that's ok
- But Mamma, can you hear me?
- As I dragged on my day's last cigarette
- He pulled me so hard off my
- Very own back door steps
- And he laid me in his garden
- All the years i've watched him tend
- And then he took me, Mamma
- So I could never tell you about it
- Inside of this moment there are
- Things I wish I could know
- Like my ring size, your ring size,
- And the hour I was born
- My dad's middle name, your favourite song
- Was your darkest day as dark as this one?
- Mamma, can you hear me?
- As I dragged on my day's last cigarette
- He pulled me so hard off my
- Very own back door steps
- And he laid me in his garden
- All the years i've watched him tend
- He took me, Mamma
- So I could never tell you about it
- Now I'm a girl who's face they'll never forget
- Blazing a trail to the southern cities
- From the streets of our hometown
- Basement bars we played from the heart
- In the company of our friends
- If I write down these memories
- That I have saved away
- Photographs of the years that passed
- Inside my little brain
- You're cool and cred like Fogerty
- I'm Elvis Presley in the 70's
- You're Chateauneuf, I'm Yellow Label
- You're the buffet I'm just the table
- I'm a Ford Tempo you're a Maserati
- You're the Great One, I'm Marty mcsorley
- You're the Concorde, I'm economy
- I make the dough but you get the glory
- Big fish small pond and some cover songs
- We sang along the way
- We used to midnight run to the Vesta Lunch
- Cheeseburgers and chocolate shakes
- Once I got drunk with Jeff
- I told him I was in love with you
- But I love you like a brother
- So at least half of it was true
- You're cool and cred like Fogerty
- I'm Elvis Presley in the seventies
- You're Chateauneuf, I'm Yellow Label
- You're the buffet I'm just the table
- I'm a Dodge Sparkle, you're a Lamborghini
- You're the Great One, I'm Marty mcsorley
- You're the Concorde, I'm economy
- I make the dough, but you get the glory
- If I write down these memories
- That I have saved away
- Photographs of the years that passed
- Inside my little brain
- I'm sure it's been said in the finer print
- You make me look legitimate
- Heavy rotation on the CBC
- Whatever in hell that really means
- You're cool and cred like Fogerty
- I'm Elvis Presley in the 70's
- You're the Concorde I'm economy
- I make the dough, but you get the glory
- Bobby wished he was from the past
- He said those cars they used to drive were the best
- I know that I'm a simple man
- Even my dreams I deserve to have
- Annabel had plans of her own
- She said there's no way in hell I'm going home
- Mamma says she always knows best
- God love her, but her life is a mess
- I won't change my mind
- So keep your hand on my thigh tonight
- When we get up north
- We'll buy us a store
- I won't fight in an oil man's war
- Bobby bought a brand new suit
- From his neighbour bought round toe shoes
- Stuffed the money down in his socks
- On his way he bought a wrist corsage
- Annie was scared to death
- She'd never once in her life laid with a man
- But she knew it was his only chance
- She bought a white dress second hand
- I won't change my mind
- Keep your hand on my thigh tonight
- When we get up north
- We'll buy us a store
- I won't fight in an oil man's war
- You can't say it's just a matter of pride
- I've been living here since I was a child
- And now I'm just a simple man
- But even my dreams I deserve to have
- I won't change my mind
- Keep your hand on my thigh tonight
- When we get up north
- We'll buy us a store
- Live upstairs after the kids are born
- And I'm not gonna die
- So keep your hand on my thigh tonight
- 'Cause when we get up north we'll buy us a store
- I won't fight in an oil man's war
- I won't fight in an oil man's war
- Choosing my words carefully
- Has never been my strength
- I've been known to be vague
- And often pointless
- But you sure as shit know me
- Better than anybody else
- And for that in my heart I am hopeful
- So I helped you pack your bags
- And I folded up your snap shirts
- When you come back
- It will already be the winter
- If you look at other girls
- Working out in the nighttime
- I don't mind but I don't want to know it
- And these years that I have known you
- It's gone and blurred my sense of time
- Now I can hardly even recall
- What came before this
- Letters left on pillows
- Messages left on phones
- Postcards in the mail
- When we sent them
- Cobwebs all collected
- Paintings on the walls
- Lounging around all day
- In a hot pink chenille housecoat
- And the secrets that I whispered
- In your ear while you were sleeping
- You can call to mind when you're
- Out in the world without me
- Oh the denim king
- I sure as shit do love you
- And I cuss because I mean it
- And for that in my heart I am hopeful
- And these words that I chose
- I was so careful
- Oh, my child 30 years today
- You came into my life
- And everything changed
- If there's one thing I tried to teach you
- Girl, don't you waste your time
- Come this September
- You'll be somebody's wife
- I won't paint a picture
- Of what you want to see
- Love is the harder times
- Take it from me
- I would run down the lane
- And into the night
- Run so fast I swear my feet would fly
- Run from my babies asleep in their beds
- Run from my lover and my best friend
- And back again
- All of this courage
- I've tried so hard to hold on to
- Ever since that day
- You and your brother left for school
- They say just over that hill
- The fog rolled in
- Come quick doctor
- We think somebody's been killed
- I have been a healer
- Of other people's pain
- I know sometimes you don't like
- The ways i've changed
- But the smell of the world came into my lungs
- The sound of the gravel when my legs went numb
- And my heart nearly burst right out of my chest
- And it felt so good to know I wasn't dead
- As a child I would wake at night
- I was scared, but I kept real quiet
- Shadows on the walls moving in on me
- Underneath my sheets I could barely breathe
- Your room was only just across the hall
- All it would have taken was a single call
- Maybe sometimes you've got to trust yourself
- Not to scream out loud and run like hell
- Believe me
- All the days you're unsure
- Believe in me
- I don't want to anymore
- In the dark
- Picture me in your mind
- And i'll lay with you
- You don't have to be scared at night
- As a young man you were shooting rats
- By accident you hit the farmyard cat
- He ran for the fields and
- Came back the next day
- You had blown out his eye
- And you could see his brain
- Your dad said "Boy, there are some things in life.
- You don't want to do but you know is right.
- So take him out back and finish him off."
- You got your gun off the shelf
- It only took one shot
- Believe me
- All the days you're unsure
- Believe in me
- I don't want to anymore
- In the dark
- Picture me in your mind
- And i'll lay with you
- So you don't have to be scared at night
- I flew to Winnipeg on your final day
- They said that you waited until I came
- We sang your favourite hymns
- And we held your hand
- You took your final breath and that was that
- But I'd never seen a person die before
- I tried so hard not to cry, you know
- Maybe sometimes we've got to trust ourselves
- That when you die you go someplace else
- Believe me
- All the days you're unsure
- Believe in me
- I don't want to anymore
- In the dark
- Picture me in your mind
- And i'll lay with you
- So you don't have to be scared at night
- You don't have to be scared at night
- You don't have to be scared at night
- You know what I wish?
- It was just you and me
- Sitting in this corner bar
- You can tell me how you are
- I'm not going to lie
- Or anything
- You don't even have to speak
- If you keep looking at me
- I could go all night
- But they're turning up the lights
- It would be so easy
- To do or say anything
- But I'm not going to lie
- Or anything
- I won't let you in my heart
- But you are always on my mind
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