Stoplight Roses

	  		

E 
You've practiced and rehearsed it 
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But in your heart you know It's too late.  
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Experience should tell you  
B       B/F#           A    E 
  Never get your story too straight.  
      A 
You'd better steel yourself  
       Am 
And prepare for  
     E        F# 
Some blues to descend  
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'Cause you've broken something this time  
                      E       F#m     B 
Stoplight roses can't mend.  
  
       E         
You've dusted off your shame face  
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In the mirror behind the bathroom door.  
     B          B/F# 
That little-boy-lost look  
     B               B/F#         A  E 
That used to work so well Doesn't anymore.  
   A                         Am 
If you believe your same-old used-to-be  
     E       F# 
Will see you through  
       F#m                  B                E 
You'll last about as long as stoplight roses do.  

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Stoplight roses  
 B7                      E   E7 
    In their sad array.  
                  A 
Love's promise in cellophane lace  
 B7                 E          E7 
       Or dead giveaway?  
A                       Am 
   You'll need time to devise 
E               F# 
      A stylish plan 
           F#m    
And you'll do it driving over to  
B                          E      E7 
       The stoplight roses man.  


       A                          Am 
And if you believe your same-old used-to-be  
E                   F# 
       Will see you through  
       F#m                   B               E 
You'll last about as long as stoplight roses do.