When You Need Roses

How many nights did you wait all alone Wondering to yourself if I was ever coming home And how many times did I break your heart In two, honey, in two When you needed roses I should have been the one To bring you a sweet bouquet Some tenderness and a loving touch When you needed roses I should have been the one Been the on, oh... You gave so much, honey, and I only took When it came to making love, you could have wrote the book If lying could hide my selfish ways, girl, I did not see That I was losing you, that I was losing you When you needed roses I should have been the one To bring you a sweet bouquet Some tenderness and a loving touch When you needed roses A gentle kiss A little romance I should have been the one When you needed roses I should have been the one I couldn't have been more wrong Thinking I was so close to you How could you stand it Now that you're not with me Why is it plain to see Things I should have said before Done before When you needed roses I should have been the one To bring you a sweet bouquet Some tenderness and a loving touch When you needed roses A gentle kiss A little romance I should have been the one When you needed roses I should have been the one When you needed roses A sweet bouquet Some tenderness (Oh, baby) And a loving touch (I should have been the one) When you needed roses I should have been the one With a sweet bouquet A loving touch, ooh, one gentle kiss That means so much When you needed roses I should have been the one to be there I should have been the one