[id:$00000000] [ar:Patti Scialfa] [ti:Rose(Album Version)] [by:] [00:00.00]Rose (Album Version) - Patti Scialfa [00:41.44]Rose was a waitress for twenty years or more [00:45.68]Bringing in the change she was heaven sent [00:50.50]She taught me how to balance trays when I didn't know what to do [00:55.17]And I learned to turn tables to make my rent [00:59.46]She said keep your eye on the work clock [01:02.87]Keep a dollar in the jukebox [01:06.00]And there's a bottle of whiskey behind the coffee machine [01:10.60]Don't talk to the boss [01:12.73]He's just trouble you don't want to cross [01:15.35]He's the walking definition of what it is to be mean [01:19.63]Well I'm going out tonight on the streets of the city [01:25.55]Going to spend my money tonight [01:30.17]I'm going out on the streets of the city [01:34.74]Rose you're pushing fifty but you sure look all right [01:59.81]Well there's this guy who speaks no English [02:02.75]And he does the dishes by hand [02:05.25]You know his pace it never slacks [02:08.36]I said "Rose he must be one of God's good children" [02:12.18]She just laughs and says "Yeah [02:14.60]God's got him doing the dishes all night in the back" [02:18.82]But he keeps smiling and those plates keep piling up so high [02:25.93]Seems he can't make a dent [02:28.89]Me I'm just bitchin' by the service station [02:33.15]So tired of waiting on all these jokers for a lousy ten percent [02:38.67]Well I'm going out on the streets of the city [02:43.93]Going to spend my money tonight [02:48.55]I'm going out on the streets of the city [02:53.19]Rose you're pushing fifty but you sure look all right [03:26.45]Now listen [03:27.83]I traveled once with this rock and roll band [03:32.00]And my baby was a hero at every small town bar [03:37.71]And I watched that summer of '88 [03:41.96]Pass through the rearview mirror of his rented car [03:46.44]But don't you learn hard and fast that the good times [03:50.80]They ain't meant to last and that sweet love [03:54.32]Ain't it the first to disappear [03:57.43]Rose sometimes I get so frightened [04:01.36]I don't want to spend the my life [04:03.80]Working on the graveyard shift here [04:06.12]Well I'm going out on the streets of the city [04:10.92]Going to spend my money tonight [04:16.69]I'm going out on the streets of the city [04:21.11]Rose you're pushing fifty but you sure look all right