All songs copyright Matthew Mutch, Dark Pilgrim Music, 2012.  All Rights Reserved.

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She was born in Ontario

In the land where the cold winds blow

Across the lake from my home town

She was closer then, I could touch her, Black Rose

It’s a long way to California

That’s where she’s living now I’ve been told

A brand new life -- a brand new name

as for me, I still call her Black Rose

      Life hits you too hard

      Anger, tears, heartache and pain

      Undoing what love had made

      Revealing the pain that remains

      And it hurts so bad, it hurts baby, so bad

Her childhood was anything but good

Battered by her father I’ve been  told

And her mother - she saved her ---mothers always do

she’d protect her precious, wounded Black Rose

It’s a long way to California

the only road she really could have chose

Such  a dark road --- strewn with broken men  

fallen lovers of my perfect Black Rose  

      Life hits you too hard

      Anger, tears, heartache and pain

      Undoing what love had made

      Revealing the pain that remains

      And it hurts so bad, it hurts baby, so bad

      

It’s a long way to California

Guess I’m kind of tempted I suppose

I could leave Steeltown before sundown

And reclaim her, and rename her Black Rose

      Life hits you too hard

      Anger, tears, heartache and pain

      Undoing what love had made

      Revealing the pain that remains

      And it hurts so bad, it hurts baby, so bad