a lifetime waiting for the light to shine suddenly you were here like an angel appeared and the world that i knew changed into a wonderland then you called out my name looked around and i found you were gone like the rays of the sun disappeared into never ending nights where everything real has turned to stone and the songbird has flown now i know a rose can change a shade of blue ooh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah a shade of blue my body s hurtin cryin and yearnin sometimes i feel like i m losin my mind and i think about you knowin only you could understand here alone in my room i can feel all the walls closin in feelin trapped in a shell wishin that i could spin the wheels of change cause everything real has turned to stone and the songbird has flown now i know a rose can change a shade of blue ooh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah a shade of blue ooh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah a shade of blue everything real has turned to stone and the songbird has flown now i know a rose can change everything real has turned to stone and the songbird has flown now i know a rose can change a shade of blue ooh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah a shade of blue ooh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah ooh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah a shade of blue ooh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah a shade of blue i can feel all the walls closin in