Song With Rose

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Between last breaths and first regrets
The days dragged on like cigarettes
In the distance martyrs and martinets
Dally, dancing with the empty silhouettes of threats

So, where but heaven does love end
And where on earth does it begin
It's not the kind of love that is pinned
Like a medal
Or presses pennies in a tin

There is hope, and after that, there is only faith
Love like a wraith
Never made me afraid
Consoled as I was by that shade...

Here lie the roses in the ashes
Deep as the barnacles that cling
Just like a lace that runs through everyone and everything

In that other still forever
In that time before the past
I told myself we'd be together
Can you promise me that it will be eternally?

There is hope, and after that, there is only faith
Love like a wraith
Never made me afraid
Consoled as I was
Consoled as I was
Consoled as I was by that shade...

Song With Rose
Words byElvis Costello & Rosanne Cash
Music byElvis Costello
Performed byElvis Costello & The Imposters
Produced byElvis Costello & Jason Lader
MusiciansElvis Costello - vocal, Fender Telecaster guitar
Pete Thomas - drums
Davey Faragher - bass
Steve Nieve - grand piano
Johnathan Rice - amplified Gibson J-45 guitar
"Farmer" Dave Scher - pedal steel guitar
Jonathan Wilson - 12-string Rickenbacker guitar
Jenny Lewis - harmony vocal
Jenny Lewis, Johnathan Rice, "Farmer" Dave Scher, Jonathan Wilson, Davey Faragher - vocal supergroup
RecordedFebruary 7-14, 2008, Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, CA
ReleasedApril 22, 2008
AlbumsMomofuku, 2008
Length3:02

First known performance:
September 29, 2007, Kingston, RI
Last known performance:
September 27, 2014, Randers, Denmark
     (21 known performances)



MomofukuMomofuku album cover.jpg

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Steve Nieve instrumental, performed live, 2020-03-28, The Daily Improvisation, France 2020 Facebook - 43:40

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