One summer weekend away
One Vancouver Island we’ll stay
Three hot sunny August days
All spent overlooking the bay
All with one another
My sister and your brother
Children with father and mother
You imagine living forever
Yellow rose petals
In a rocky creek
Yellow rose petals
An answer for which we seek
Yellow rose petals
A formal sacrifice
Yellow rose petals
The guilts not always nice
Ash we scatter in the river
Warm tear drops, a cold shiver
Our time is a tiny sliver
On a hot sunny day by the river
A truly horrible tragedy
And all this came to be
You sharing this with me
Death is all I can see
Yellow rose petals
Tossed with emotion
Yellow rose petals
Flowing in river motion
Yellow rose petals
Wash away the pain
Yellow rose petals
Dissolve the ugly stain
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