Blood and Flowers

Blood and flowers
Are all that I could offer you
Blood and flowers
Strewn upon your wedding hearse
Stuck here together
Since love departed
Stuck here forever
In sickness, death and something worse

Blood and flowers
Not for the feigning hearted
Blood and flowers
Did we realise what we had started?
Stuck here together
Since love departed
Stuck here forever
In sickness, death and something worse

Blood and flowers
What were you really waiting for?
A little more than a coy virgin
A little less than a gushing whore
A game or four of let's pretend
To while away the  hours
I'll be your faithless sixth best friend

Blood and flowers
The photographer brought us more than showers
With a sharp eye for the money shot
I'll dust the album for his prints
Stuck here together
Since love departed
Stuck here forever
In sickness, death and something worse

Waiting at the altered side
A maid dishonored  and a flushing bride
A king to turn away the tide
And a Queen of clubbing by his side
What have we done since love departed
What  have we done?
We reached the finish line before we started.

Blood and flowers
Our presents lying by the trash
A toaster for the clichéd toasts
A bandage for the broken oaths
A plasterer for a broken heart
A beginning that could never start
Something
Borrowed blew and sold
A blistered finger cold as gold
A redeemed dream that couldn't last
A lover's name screams from my past

Blood and flowers
All that I could  have given you
An OK honeymoon weekend
A token from a magazine
From the safety of our marriage bed
He sat and watched your centre spread

Blood and flowers
Did we realise what we have started?
Stuck here together
Since love departed
Stuck here forever
In sickness, death and something worse