"Love Lies Bleeding" in "Funeral for a Friend" -- Elton John

[CTyankee]

Davey Johnstone on bass guitar!

This is long but just wonderful.

Was this for Princess Diana?

[we can do it]

1. Song out way before Princess Di.

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. You surely know...

That “love lies bleeding” is a flower.

I always thought that was a great song lyric.

[CTyankee]

3. Yes, I do and I suspect it is a quote from a Tudor era sonnet. Or at least, it sounds that way to me

[Docreed2003]

5. For what it's worth, during the Victorian era when flower language was in vogue

The flower "love lies bleeding" symbolized hopelessness or hopeless love

[CTyankee]

6. I love the Pre-Raphaelites, what a beautiful era in art!

[Diamond_Dog]

4. Fabulous, thank you CTYankee!