Can Blood Stain the Red, Red Rose?

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Can blood stain the red, red rose?

There are many prophecies foretold

And in your hands my heart you hold.

If in that heart there is already pain,

Can you really break it again?

Maybe I should keep it all to myself,

Or leave it somewhere, sitting pretty on a shelf.

Then from your perch on the serpent's tree

All you could do is sit and see,

See how her beauty shines and glows

And her none again will ever hold

Then her blood will never touch the red, red rose.

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