Gas Station Roses

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🎤 [Intro – 4 bars, soft vocal lead-in]

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Mmm…

It was 12:45 when I pulled to the side...

Had five bucks and your name on my mind...

Gas station roses, still holdin’ tight...

But you were already gone that night…

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🎤 [Hook – 8 Bars, soft chorus]

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Gas station roses, crushed in the seat

I picked 'em up prayin’ you'd come back to me

Red turned to gray in the warmth of my hand

Still hopin’ you'd understand

Midnight regret in a cloud of smoke

Your name in my chest like a prayer I choke

You took your light, now the road feels colder

Still holdin’ these roses… but they just get older

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🎤 [Verse 1 – 8 Bars]

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I stopped at the corner where we used to laugh

Where your perfume still cuts through the past

The pump light flickers like your goodbye

And I’m hummin’ your name in the pale moonlight

Tried to buy love for a dollar and change

But you needed peace, not more of my pain

And these petals won't fix what I broke

But I still drive with hope…

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🎤 [Hook – 8 Bars]

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Gas station roses, crushed in the seat

I picked 'em up prayin’ you'd come back to me

Red turned to gray in the warmth of my hand

Still hopin’ you'd understand

Midnight regret in a cloud of smoke

Your name in my chest like a prayer I choke

You took your light, now the road feels colder

Still holdin’ these roses… but they just get older

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🎤 [Bridge – 4 Bars, falsetto harmony option]

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You said, “Don’t chase me unless you know why…”

Now I’m askin’ the stars every night…

Was I too late or just too blind?

To see you slippin’ outta my life…

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🎤 [Final Hook – 8 Bars, lifted vocally]

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Gas station roses, layin’ in dust

Thought they meant love, now they just mean “us”

Late-night drivin’, tears on the beat

Singin’ our song with no one in the seat

You left with peace, I stayed with pain

You don’t miss me — just the sound of my name

Still bring you roses in the back of my mind…

But they don’t bloom this time…

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