Name: Blood and Roses
Duration: 3 min 22 s
Channel: Terry Taylor, Bruce Brososky
Description: License options are available for this song. Blood and Roses seem to be paired up pretty often, one way or another, in life and art. Guest vocal by Brenda Briggs.

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Blood and Roses seem to be paired up pretty often, one way or another, in life and art. Guest vocal by Brenda Briggs.

urban bunny terry taylor bruce brososky cathy taylor

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Urban Bunny

A verstile acoustic rock/blues/alt country group with an edgy sense of humour.

Urban Bunny is a group including myself, my wife Cathy, songwriting partner Bruce Brososky on bass and guitar, Steve Lemiski on drums and percussion, and Laurent Arams on guitar. This band was born of jams and workshopping new songs at the West Edmonton Music Society. While not a full time performing group, Urban Bunny does do one or two local performances a month, and has recently completed a new CD of material written by Terry and Bruce, entitled 'Dead of Night', much of which is available for listening right here. You can find more music from Cathy and Bruce on their own SoundClick profile pages, which, oddly enough, are handily linked to the "Fans" section below :) Other key performers in the UB recordings include Stu Adams (harp), Dan MacDonald (sax), and Brenda Briggs (vocals). Brenda sang all the parts on "Blood and Roses" and "Broken Down Angel" (one of her own songs), as well as backups on several others.

Song Info

Genre

Pop • Pop Rock

Charts

#2,496 in subgenre Peak #35

Charts

Peak #168

Author

Terry Taylor, Bruce Brososky

Rights

Terry Taylor, Bruce Brososky

Uploaded

May 30, 2008

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.1 MB • 128 kbps • 3:22

Story behind the song

Bruce came up with the image of flowers, gifts and cards left at a death scene, in memory of an innocent victim of some senseless act of urban violence and that became our story for the song.

Our friend Brenda lent her considerable talent to the vocals and another guest visit from Dan the Saxman gave this a moody darkness that I really like.

Lyrics

BLOOD AND ROSES	
Bruce Brososky & Terry Taylor

TONITE THE SIDEWALK’S BRIGHT WITH FLOWERS, TEDDY BEARS AND NOTES
THAT SAY ‘LAURA WE MISS YOU WHY DID YOU HAVE TO GO ?
IT WAS AN ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING, SOMEONE ELSE WAS MEANT TO DIE
BUT IT’S A CHILD OF 13 SUMMERS THAT WAS KILLED AS THEY DROVE BY

BLOOD AND ROSES, SENTIMENTAL RHYMES
BLOOD AND ROSES, 
ARE ALL THAT’S LEFT BEHIND

ALL THE BRIGHT LIGHTS OF THE CITY MASK THE VIOLENCE AND PAIN
NO FLOWERS MARK THE CORNER OF 34TH AND MAIN
JUST THE RED LIGHTS SLOWLY FLASHING IN THE DARK, AND IN THE RAIN
THEY LOOK JUST LIKE BLOOD AND ROSES, AND THE CITY BLEEDS AGAIN

BLOOD AND ROSES, SENTIMENTAL RHYMES
BLOOD AND ROSES, 
ARE ALL THAT’S LEFT BEHIND

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