Cover for The Will to Live by Ben Harper Cover for The Will to Live by Ben Harper

Roses from My Friends

Ben Harper

Album
The Will to Live
Released
1997

I could have treated you better  - …

But you couldn't have - Treated me worse

But it's he      - Who laughs last ╔═══════════

It is he who cries first - …       ║   Roses

Sometimes I feel - I know strangers     from

Better than I know   - My friends  ║ My Friends

Why must a beginning - …           ║ Ben Harper

Be the means         - To an end   ╚═══════════


(The) stones from my enemies           [Chorus]

These wounds will mend           E D#  E  D#

((But) I cannot survive - … x1) (E D#  C# E x1)

The roses from my friends        E D#-X

                                        [Intro]

When the last word has been spoken - …

We've bared witness - To the final setting sun

All that shall remain is a token - …

Of what we've said and done      - …    [Intro]

When all we've had - Has been forsaken     (x2)

Distant church bells - No longer ring     G# Fm

That's the sound     - Of a heart taken   D# C#

And the story of tears - From a king


  [Chorus] [Intro] (x5) [Solo - Chorus] [Intro]

                                           (x2)

(This may be the last time - I see you

 (Forgive me for holding you close - …/

  So, of this moment - I will make the most/

  But if you keep me in your heart - …) x3)

Together we shall be eternal - …

If you believe we shall never part   [Chorus

                                       Lines

[Chorus] () (But/…/Oh) (x3) [Intro]       #1~4]