Casey Lee Williams - Red Like Roses Pt. II [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Verse 1: Casey Lee Williams]
I couldn't take it, couldn't stand another minute;
Couldn't bear another day without you in it
All of the joy that I had known for all my life
Was stripped away from me the minute that you died

To have you in my life was all I ever wanted
But now without you, I'm a soul forever haunted
Can't help but feel that I had taken you for granted;
No way in Hell that I can ever comprehend this

I wasn't dreaming when they told me you were gone
I was wide awake and feeling that they had to be wrong
How could you leave me when you swore that you would stay?
Now I'm trapped inside a nightmare every single f'ing day

It's like a movie, but there's not a happy ending;
Every scene fades black, and there's no pretending
This little fairy tale doesn't seem to end well
There's no knight in shining armor who will wake me from the spell

I know you didn't plan this;
You tried to do what's right
But in the middle of this madness
I'm the one you left to win this fight

[Chorus: Casey Lee Williams]
Red like roses
Fills my head with dreams and finds me
Always closer
To the emptiness and sadness
That has come to take the place of you

[Verse 2: Sandy Lee Casey]
I know you’re broken down by anger and by sadness;
You feel I left you in a world that’s full of madness
Wish I could talk to you, if only for a minute;
Make you understand the reasons why I did it

I wanna tell you that you’re all that ever mattered;
Want you to know that, for eternity, I’m shattered
I tried so hard just to protect you, but I failed to
And in a prison of abandonment I’ve jailed you

I never planned that I would leave you there alone
I was sure that I would see you when I made it back home
And all the times I swore that it would be okay;
Now I’m nothing but a liar, and you're thrown into the fray

This bedtime story ends with misery ever after
The pages are torn, and there’s no final chapter
I didn’t have a choice, I did what I had to do;
I made a sacrifice, but forced a bigger sacrifice on you

I know you've lived a nightmare;
I caused you so much pain
But baby, please don’t do what I did;
I don’t want you to waste your life in vain

[Chorus: Casey]

[Bridge: Casey Lee Williams and Sandy Lee Casey]
(Sandy:) You’re not the only one who needed me; I thought you understood
(Casey:) You were the one I needed, and you left me as I always feared you would
(Sandy:) Would I change it if I could?

(Casey and Sandy:) It doesn’t matter how
The petals scatter now
Every nightmare just discloses
It’s your blood that’s red like roses

(Casey:) And no matter what I do
Nothing ever takes the place of you

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus: Casey]