In order that she may survive she kept you at arm's length
Because she was no ordinary flower she needed all her strength
All tangled up amidst the weeds you gathered but one too many
'til one by one her petals fell until there were not any

But though all around were flowers someone loved her naked stem
It was for him she kept her strength for the wild rose blooms again
And all her petals were as tears which watered the weeds as she grew
For it was she who put them in your path but she alone that knew