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What Would I Ever Do with a Rose?

Rufus Wainwright
Track 10 on All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu 

Producer

Pierre Marchand
20101 viewer

What Would I Ever Do with a Rose? Lyrics

What would I ever do with a rose?
How would it ever get me high?
What would I ever do with a rose?
How would it ever get me by?
How would it ever get the guy?
What would I ever do with a rose?

Sitting here underneath the bridge
Making love at the break of dawn
Sitting here in the afternoon
Making love underneath the awning
I'll then tell you in the night
Tell you this with a kiss

Never does the dream come true
Without the night
Never does the dream come true
Without the nightmare

What would I ever do with a rose?
How would it ever get me high?
What would I ever do with a rose?
How would it ever get me by?
How would it ever get the guy?
What would I ever do?
What would I ever do with you?
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Never does the dream come true
Without the nightmare

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All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (2010)
Rufus Wainwright
  1. 1.
    Who Are You New York?
  2. 2.
    Sad with What I Have
  3. 3.
    Martha
  4. 4.
    Give Me What I Want and Give It to Me Now!
  5. 5.
    True Loves
  6. 6.
    Sonnet 43
  7. 7.
    Sonnet 20
  8. 8.
    Sonnet 10
  9. 9.
    The Dream
  10. 10.
    What Would I Ever Do with a Rose?
  11. 11.
    Les feux d’artifice t’appellent
  12. 12.
    Zebulon
  13. 13.
    The Walking Song
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Release Date
2010
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