A rose is just a rose is just a rose

A simple lie that everybody knows

But even filled with poetry and prose

You could be a wolf in sheepish clothes

There's an explanation I suppose

How the love you came with comes and goes

That even as your precious antler grows

You're keeping one eye out for other does



Sometimes I start out believing men

Then right before my very eyes

Somehow I'm on the receiving end

Of some inconceivable lies



And a lie is just a lie is just a lie

And here in our cocoon they flutter by

'Cause even underneath the naked eye

A gypsy moth is not a butterfly



If you want to please me, please be gone

You are not the favorite thing I've done

You'd be so much better on your own

If you're gonna leave me, leave me alone



A rose is just a rose is just a rose

Even when the perfect petals close

All the crumpled color never shows

Trampled underneath your careless toes



Sometimes I start out by running 'round

With manly men with manly poise

But somehow I end up a dumping ground

For uninspired little boys



If you want to please me, please be gone

You've got all these choices, slim and none

Why not throw another girl a bone

If you're gonna leave me, leave me alone



Maybe for the final word

I'll try to be more delicate

I only want to help the next in line

What's the final damage worth

I figured, for the hell of it

That you could be the only man on earth

And I'd be celibate



A rose is just a rose is just a rose

But even when it's right beneath your nose

There's a kind of odor that just flows

When the rose is in it's dying throes

You were just another one of those-acap