Black Roses

What ever happened to my garden of black roses?

Nurturing years are so long

When I was a boy, I planted a garden

That means so much to me

One of reality, yeah

A garden of love, known like this before

What a kind of quality

I pray for you and me

Whatever happened to my garden of black roses?

Nurturing is so long

Whatever happened to my garden of black roses

They say a stranger treated him wrong

Oh, we can keep the candles burning

To shelter them from pain

Let it laugh again

Shower the world with their innocence

Blue tears fell like rain

History remains the same

But one by one they come a-missin'

Strangers talk, strangers talk

I was sleepin'

Some life, some life meant nothing to some people

Watch out now, we got them on the run

Whatever happened to my garden of black roses?

Nurturing years are so long

What ever happened to my garden of black roses?

They say a stranger treated them wrong

Tell me, what ever happened to my garden of black roses?

Will someone help me see?

I haven't seen them for so long

So long, my black roses, what have you been, will someone say?

Mama, black roses, my precious black roses, night and day, I hear the children crying,

They say, "Whatever happened to my garden of black roses?

Who nurtured it for so long?

Whatever happened to my garden of black roses?

They say a stranger treated them wrong.

Whatever happened to my garden of black roses

Nurturing years are so long, yeah, yeah