The Greenfly And The Rose Lyrics - Robert Calvert

All good things must end 

The straightest rose will bend 

Its colours droop and wilt 

Just like a love affair 

The Pink Sensation fades 

The Sterling Silver fades 

The Virgo and Blue Moon 

Soon they're just wrinkled things 

The Baccara 

The flame red Superstar 

Forever yours 

A rose called Peace 

At night the aphids dream 

A micro-locust's dream 

They eat the world alive 

There's not a morsel left 

They eat the jungle leaves 

Consume the wheat-field sheaves 

The eat the flowers and plants 

They eat their stalks as well 

As their tiny jaws 

Munch on planet cores 

Their complex eyes 

Examine the skies 

They eat the cumuli 

Marshmallow of the sky 

They eat away the blue 

And they eat the Sun and Moon 

They swallow all the stars 

And both the moons of Mars 

They lick the plate of space 

They lick their lips as well 

The Baccara 

The flame red Superstar 

Forever yours 

A rose called Peace 

The Greenfly and the Rose 

The Greenfly and the Rose 

The Greenfly and the Rose 

The Greenfly and the Rose 

The Greenfly and the Rose 

The Greenfly and the Rose 

The Greenfly and the Rose 

The Greenfly and the Rose