Red Roses For A Blue Lady

The speaker is trying to make peace after a small quarrel with someone he loves. He orders flowers in the hope that they will lift her mood and help repair the relationship. The song moves from worry about her sadness toward playful optimism: if the flowers work, he imagines a future wedding.

“Blue” suggests feeling sad, while “chase her blues away” treats that sadness as something the flowers might drive off. The red roses serve as a romantic apology, not merely a gift. The white orchid for a wedding gown extends the image into a hopeful fantasy: the speaker is already imagining marriage if his gesture succeeds.

The cheerful tone makes the quarrel seem minor, but the speaker’s plan also suggests he may be relying on a gesture rather than talking through what happened. The wedding reference could be sincere hope, playful exaggeration, or both. The lyrics do not tell us whether the flowers are accepted or whether the couple’s disagreement is truly resolved.