Damn It, Rose Lyrics - Singles - Don Henley

Maybe just a good nights sleep 

Would have changed your troubled mind 

From that rather permanent decision 

So tragic, so unkind 

Now pain is what you've given 

And sleep is what you'll get 

So far away from that sweet baby child 

Who hardly knew you yet 

Now he'll grow up to be a fighter 

Full of anger, full of shame 

Like all the other haunted children 

Who wonder why they came 

And he'll be in and out of trouble 

Until he stands up or he falls 

But there will always be a shadow there 

No matter how it goes 

Damn it, Rose 

Is this another cryptic message 

Or some kind of cosmic quiz? 

If there's a lesson to be learned from this 

Well, I don't know what it is 

You could have given us the finger 

Much more constructively than that 

Now I sit here with the MTV 

And your bloated Burmese cat 

We're being treated to the wisdom 

Of some puffed up little fart 

Doing exactly what I used to do 

Pretensions to anarchy and art 

He speaks the language of a warrior 

He mounts his misinformed attack 

He wears the clothes of a dissenter 

But there's a logo on his back 

And it's a hollow rebellion 

As rebellions mostly are 

It's just another raging tempest 

In a jar 

And the seasons keep on changing 

And the wind blows hot and cold 

Wish that you were here with us 

To watch this tide as it ebbs and flows 

Damn it, Rose, damn it, Rose, damn it, Rose