Roses From My Friends - Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals

I could have treated you better

But you couldn’t have treated me worse

Oh but it’s he, it’s he who laughs last

Is he who cries first

Sometimes I feel I know strangers

Better than I know my friend

Why must a beginning

Be the means to an end

The stones from my enemies

These wounds will mend

But I cannot survive the roses from my friends

Oh, I cannot survive the roses

When the last word has been spoken

And we’ve beared witness to the final setting sun

All that shall remain is a token

Of what we’ve said and done

When all we’ve had, when all we’ve had has been forsaken

Distant church bells no longer ring

That’s the sound of a heart taken

And the story of tears from a king

The stones from my enemies

These wounds will mend

But I cannot survive the roses from my friends

Oh, I cannot survive the roses

This may be the last time that I see you

Forgive me for holding you close

This may be the last time I see you

So of this moment I will make the most

This may be the last time I see you

But if you keep me in your heart

Together we shall be eternal

If you believe, we shall never, never, never part

The stones from my enemies

These wounds will mend

But I cannot survive the roses from my friends

The stones from my enemies

These wounds will mend

But I cannot survive, oh, I cannot survive

Oh, I cannot survive, oh, I cannot survive

Oh, I cannot survive the roses, the roses

Oh the roses, the roses

I cannot survive the roses from my friends