Lyrics
I've been thinkin about all the places that I've been.
The speaker reflects on past experiences and places they've been.
And all the heartache that I've been through.
Mentions the emotional pain and difficulties endured in the past.
When the same thing about all these things.
Thinking about these experiences brings a sense of difficulty.
It's not so easy without you.
Life feels challenging without the presence of someone significant.
Your love was everything to me.
The love from that person was extremely important.
When you were giving me roses.
Recalling a time when the person gave the speaker roses.
All my friends would say don't give it up.
Friends advised against giving up, believing the person would return.
He'll come back in time.
Assurance that the person would come back eventually.
But I really know its over.
The speaker acknowledges that it's truly over despite others' beliefs.
And my heart just can't believe you won't be around her to love and hold me.
The heart can't accept the absence of the loved one.
CHORUS:
Chorus: Begins the repeated theme of 'throwing roses.'
Throw the roses on me.
Symbolically asking to throw roses on the speaker.
Throw them on me now.
Reiterates the request to throw roses on them.
Throw the roses on me.
Continuation of the plea to throw roses.
Bury me now.
Expresses a desire to be buried with roses.
I need the roses.
The speaker feels a need for the symbolic representation of love (roses).
Come on and bury me now.
Reiterates the plea to be buried with roses.
I need the roses.
Reaffirms the desire for roses in the burial.
I believed in you.
The speaker had trust and belief in the person.
You said you wouldn't be gone.
The person assured they wouldn't leave, but they did.
You took the best of me.
The speaker feels betrayed, the person took the best parts of them.
Left me for another.
Left by the person for someone else.
You went and left me all alone.
The speaker is left feeling completely alone.
CHORUS
Repeats the chorus theme of throwing roses.
You gave me a dozen.
Recollection of receiving a dozen roses.
You gave me oh yes now.
Confirmation of the memory of receiving roses.
The roses don't mean a thing to me, that wanted to use to gather up the pain, that's just by you.
The roses, once significant, now fail to alleviate the pain caused by the person.
CHORUS
Repeats the chorus emphasizing the desire for roses during burial.
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