This time let's not bring up my disasters Or put me on some couch like Sigmund Freud Your textbooks filled with hypothetical answers So to summarize she called it null and void What do you want me to tell you? What do you want me to say? I've been cut by the rose again All the petals have fallen to pieces Now I'm left with the thorn and the stem I'm out looking for my friends I'm looking for my friends She left the note in the sleeve of my coat That was not nice I called her on the phone, the voice that spoke It was cold, it was hard as ice I tried to speak, the connection was weak 'Cause I was talking to a machine She said, "If this is you, we're totally through" And that's the last of her I've seen What do you want me to tell you? I got the message loud and clear I've been cut by the rose again All the petals have fallen to pieces Now I'm left with the thorn and the stem I'm out looking for my friends I'm looking for my friends, looking for my friends Now I can't talk, see talk is cheap I'm in a no-win situation There are no words that I could speak That would mend this broken rose So here I am on the couch of a friend Who submits his observations He says love comes and goes I've been cut by the rose again All the petals have fallen to pieces Now I'm left with the thorn and the stem I'm out looking for my friends Looking for my friends, looking for my friends Looking for my friends, looking for my friends I'm looking for my friends, looking for my friends