text: you re beautiful but you re empty one couldn t die for you of course an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you but my rose all on her own is more important than all of you together since she s the one i ve watered since she s the one i put under glass since she s the one i sheltered behind the screen since she s the one for whom i killed the caterpillars except the two or three butterflies since she s the one i listened to when she complained or when she boasted or even sometimes when she said nothing at all since she s my rose