The Bloody Rose

The Bloody Rose

The sun was high, the air stood still

In the last chance bar in Borderville.

In a deep dark corner sat a sister and brother

Or a pretty girl weeping in the arms of her lover

They gunned down her Papa ‘neath a cruel black star

Then ran for the border in the family car

Her pretty red blood stains the dust like a rose

Now papa was rotten as a shit filled snake

There was nothing in this world that he wouldn’t just take

Spreading himself all around the town

‘Til he turned on his girl-child so they took him down

Two souls joined with a love so pure

But he might have been her brother they could never be sure

Her pretty red blood stains the dust like a rose

Right up against it on destruction row

All busted and broke no place to go

Sister and brother planned one last run

To knock off a liquor store with Daddy’s gun

She went in quiet with a cool clear head

But when she came out three men lay dead

Her Pretty red blood stains the dust like a rose

The deputy sheriff shot her right in the eye

And her pretty lover brother left her there to die

That shit scared boy shoved his foot on the gas

And shot off like a rocket for the Freedom Pass

Her pretty red blood stains the dust like a rose