First I saw you
Love in a silk black slip
In dark waters
Sinking like a ship
Trouble on your lips
Murder in your song
Song of a mean man [bad word] and gone

Oh Melancholy Rose
Oh Melancholy Rose [bad word] souls' midnight
We'll both sail away
Leaving red sunsets
To end our passion play
Bitter allows
Tingles on the tongue
Body and soul [bad word] and gone

Oh Melancholy Rose
Oh Melancholy Rose
 [bad word] away
Black Sobraine hair
Turning cigarette ash grey
Sprawled across troubled beds
Hands outstretched
Reaching for the pills
In [bad word] motels
Life, love, men
Dust to dust
Disaster after disaster
Must be some dark kiss on your lips
promise of heaven or [bad word] in your song
Tomorrow it'll all be gone be gone

Oh Melancholy Rose [bad word] and gone
Oh Melancholy Rose
Love [bad word] and gone
Oh Melancholy Rose
Murder in your song