And, of course, the THIRD thing with "Roses Blue" (one of these days I'll remember to post everything in one tidy note - yeah, sure) is that it is a comment on jumping on the current spiritual bandwagon. At the time this was written, Eastern religions, the occult, etc. were undergoing a re-emergence in the West. Some people just do things to be cool. She puts on the trappings to be exotic, but of course she won't say when your death will occur because she CAN'T because they are, after all, ONLY trappings. (Not that I necessarily think that no one can - there *are* more things in Heaven & Earth, Horatio...)

Around the same time this came out, I met a Catholic priest who had worked for a number of years in India. He said kids over there were rebelling by becoming Christians - ! :-)