The trees cast off their covering with autumn leaves ablaze watch them burn

Watch them light the night

While my heart sits in the darkened earth away from longing gaze and time will turn

It's hidden from your light

You're the yellow bird in the coalmine of my heart

You're the orange flame in the night to light the way

You're the red brick road where I drag my laden cart

I'm just a thorned rose, my colors fade

I have been too selfish to tell you it's all right, come my dear

There's no need to cry

I have said I love you, that there's no need to fear but it's too late

In the vase I'll dry

You're the yellow bird in the coalmine of my heart

You're the orange flame in the night to light the way

You're the red brick road where I drag my laden cart

I'm just a thorned rose, my colors fade

If I was a garden I would bundle every bloom and call the crows

My crumbling shame to hide

One final bouquet emerges from the dust plume, now nothing grows

It has cracked and dried

You're the yellow bird in the coalmine of my heart

You're the orange flame in the night to light the way

You're the red brick road where I drag my laden cart

I'm just a thorned rose, my colors fade