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Rosealia

"Rosealia"
BTE - Rosealia cover.jpg
Single by Better Than Ezra
from the album Deluxe
Released November 7, 1995
Format CD single
Genre Alternative rock
Length 04:36
Label Elektra Records
Writer(s) Kevin Griffin
Better Than Ezra singles chronology
"In the Blood"
(1995)
"Rosealia"
(1995)
"King of New Orleans"
(1996)

"Rosealia" is a song by American alternative rock group Better Than Ezra. It was released in November 1995 as the third single from their debut album, Deluxe.

The song is about a woman in an abusive relationship.

During a concert in Albuquerque on Monday, September 21, 2009, Kevin Griffin explained to the audience that while living for a short time in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he had a job waiting tables at The Pink Adobe restaurant. The restaurant's owner was a woman named Rosalea Murphy, and he wrote this song as a tribute to her.

The single peaked at No. 71 on the Billboard Hot 100.Rosealia spent eleven weeks on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, peaking at No. 24.


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