Roses for the Dead

Album: Hours (2006)
Charted: 39
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Songfacts®:

  • In an interview with Kerrang! magazine, Matt Davies called this "a heavy song, but not in the way metal is typically considered to be 'heavy.' This is about the death of close friends; I saw my friends and family all grieving, but I didn't know how to react. I felt odd because I wasn't crying; I sat there and took it all in. I wanted to pay tribute to the memory of those people, who I missed so much, and to express that." >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Ben - Adelaide, SA, Australia
  • Davies honored his late friends in the album booklet: "Dedicated to the memory of Lianne Davies and Lloyd Bird, eternally loved and never forgotten."
  • This was the fourth and final single released from the Hours album.

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