Live gigs were played with guitar & piano and included appearances with Final Fantasy, Jeremy Warmsley, Jeffrey Lewis & Tilly and the Wall. She contributed "Bridges" to the “50minutes” charity compilation (Oct 2006, EXERCISE1), with Daniel Johnston, Ladyfuzz & Emmy the Great.
Groves used the name from November 2008, writing in her MySpace blog "As I've been recording and working on new things throughout the year I feel like I'm in a different place musically to when I started out, so it seemed appropriate to become something new".
Sites: Discogs & http://MySpace.com/MusicOfBlueRoses.
Greatest Thoughts
Blue Roses Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴
Cold and uninviting
You stumbled on its stones last night
Beneath the trailing ivy
These are the shoes that I had worn
It was on that day last winter when You left me frozen and forlorn
I swore I
would never let that happen again
So I built a fortress, a shield to protect myself from that kind of pain.
But now that you've found your way in, I can see that you're different from the rest.
Your presence is like the ivy that grows on the fortress, adding beauty and softness to the hardened walls.
These lyrics describe an emotional fortress that the singer built around themselves to protect from the pain of being hurt. The fortress is described as cold and uninviting, and the singer stumbled on its stones. This suggests that the singer's attempt to protect themselves from pain has also closed them off to potential connections and relationships with others. However, the fortress is softened by the ivy that is growing on it, and the singer acknowledges that the presence of the person they are addressing is different from others in the past. Thus, the ivy becomes a metaphor for the power of love to soften the walls we put up around ourselves.
Writer(s): Laura Margaret Groves
Contributed by Vivian J. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Skiniver
Been listening to this album for a little over 5 years, it got me through my suicidal thoughts the first time and hopefully it can do it again.
niecaps
hey you doing alright now?
Skiniver
@niecaps I've had highs and lows, currently on a very big low and truth be told I can't remember how it was last year, I don't remember much of anything but I hope this is better than before, that's what my friends tell me at least.
Thanks for checking in on me like this, acts of kindness from strangers are some of the only ones you can know are truly sincere.
(And sorry if I talk a little weird, autism moment)
122justme222
thank you, thank you, thank you for uploading this cd!! have been looking for it quit a while! thank you! :)
Francis Broka
Laura, please, come back !!!!!!!!!!!!!
benjamin buchanan
<3
taanatheonetaana
Second to none !
dirk diggler
very cool but they need a bassist and drummer
Vincent Valentino
hahaha. yeeeah...NO! Dude definitely doesn't get music.
monkadelic2
@poppafunky lol