Laredo Rose - Texas Tornados

Laredo Rose

Your garden has a scent of cheap perfume

The sun is a stranger to you

How’s a rose suppose to bloom?

Laredo Rose

A rosary hangs from your bedpost

A man you just met gets out

Stumbles puttin' on his clothes

As he walks away

You watch candlelight play

On a photograph

A husband and a son and a daughter

You bought her a dress today

To send to Monterrey

Laredo Rose

Your garden has a scent of cheap perfume

The sun is a stranger to you

How’s a rose suppose to bloom?

Couple bills on the dresser

Father confessin' knows the wages of sin

Many times they’ve been paid

As sure as night follows day

They’ll be payin' again

'Til Heaven knows when

And Heaven knows

Our Lady looks down from adobe walls

Uneven footsteps grow fainter

As they echo down the hall

Laredo Rose

Your garden has a scent of cheap perfume

The sun is a stranger to you

How’s a rose suppose to bloom?

The sun is a stranger to you

How’s a rose suppose to bloom?