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Mrs. Mullen

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What do these lyrics mean, can't figure it out?

"I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts"

thanks
 
Those are both types of flowers, but they also are expressions. A bleeding heart is someone "perceived as excessively compassionate but naïve" (Wikipedia). Some people accused Bono of being like this when he first started doing Africa stuff. I'm not sure what a "painted rose" is, but I've always thought that it means something is phony.
 
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