What is "Kiss from a Rose" by Seal all about?

Question

That song doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
"Kiss from a rose on the grey"?

Answer 1

I checked songmeanings.net and this is what I found out:

1. Its hard to look one way; feeling ugly and evil all of your life i feel this song is like someone so great and so beautiful falling in love with you and makes you feel like no other experience ever. True love in existence with the ugliness you possess.

2. I think it means that you love someone eternally beautiful, like a rose, but their thorns are causing you pain at the same time. It is definately not about heroin or something. That line "and love became a drug that's the high and not the pill" means that love is giving you a "high" that no pill could ever give you. This person is very much in love with someone and they are the most beautiful thing in their life, maybe the only beautiful thing in their life because the song says "rose on the grey". They brighten up their dull and ugly life.

3. The term "Kiss from a rose" is a reference to the high you get from heroin. Hence "drug that's the high and not the pill". Also, it could be about smoking marijuana. "Drug that's the high and not the pill" is a little too direct a reference. "The more I get of you stranger it feels", the more you smoke the more stoned you get. Grey describes the gloom of his daily routine and smoking some pot relieves some of that. "My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen" = dilated pupils and moments of intoxicated insights.

Whatever way you'd like to interpret it.

Answer 2

Seal Kissed By The Rose

Answer 3

Kiss From A Rose Lyrics

Answer 4

My interpretation is about a guy who was with a lady that died. He had a younger female friend that was there for him. Soon after the funeral, they ended up becoming more than just friends. This is all summed up in the lines 'Now that your rose is in bloom, a light hits the gloom on the grave.' In the beginning he speaks of a graying tower alone on the sea. Well, an obvious reference to a phallus, alone and graying is usually a sign of getting older. Also, he was addicted to love, so he needed it after his wife died hence his willingness to go along with someone so young that it made him question it (I quote, "The more I get of you, stranger it feels.")

Anyways, that's the beautfiul thing about art, it's open to interpretation.

Answer 5

According to songfacts.com

Seal wrote this in tribute to Crosby Stills & Nash while living in a squat in Kensal Green, London.
Seal recorded this for his second album, and it was later used over the end credits of the Batman Forever movie, which helped make it a huge hit.

Answer 6

RE:
What is "Kiss from a Rose" by Seal all about?
That song doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
"Kiss from a rose on the grey"?

Answer 7

i'm not positive, but i think he's basically saying that during the bad times, she was there for him and got him through it. i guess the gray represents all the times when he's unhappy or something. but like when he says, "the light on the dark side of me" and he says that "when it snows...the light that you shine can be seen" meaning she brings light and hapiness into his life. but yeah, i see how the "kiss from a rose on the grey" is a little confusing, but anyways...i hope it helps.

Answer 8

I think It was about his Wife at the time Heidi Klum she brought a light in to his life and made his life less dull than it was B4 he met her

Answer 9

More details needed

Answer 10

It depends on many things