🔹 [INTRO – Soft Spanish guitar + vinyl crackle] (Moody Loe, quiet) “They always ask why my love don’t bloom… I water it with pain — that’s all I knew.” ⸻ 🔹 [HOOK – Slow, airy harmonies] All I give is dead roses, baby, that’s the only type I know They pretty at first, but they die real slow I plant ‘em with good intent, but they grow with cold You love me like spring — but I come with snow Every time I give my heart, it come with stains I paint you a garden, then it floods with rain You want warmth, but I only been raised in flame Dead roses in my hand, girl — I love with pain ⸻ 🔹 [VERSE 1 – Melodic storytelling] I picked petals with promises I couldn’t keep Said I’d change, then left you cryin’ in sleep I ghosted on your birthday, came back on a whim Told you “I’m broken,” but you still let me in I don’t lie ‘cause I’m evil, I lie ‘cause I’m scared I don’t cheat to win — I just never felt fair You said, “Treat me like you care, not like the streets” But all I ever learned was give love with a piece I been writin’ poems with my silence and guilt You said, “Show me flowers,” but my soil got tilt How you bloom from a past that never had sun? I’m sorry, girl… I warned you I was the wrong one ⸻ 🔹 [HOOK – Repeat with extra harmony layer] All I give is dead roses, baby, that’s the only type I know They pretty at first, but they die real slow I plant ‘em with good intent, but they grow with cold You love me like spring — but I come with snow Every time I give my heart, it come with stains I paint you a garden, then it floods with rain You want warmth, but I only been raised in flame Dead roses in my hand, girl — I love with pain ⸻ 🔹 [VERSE 2 – Softer delivery, falsetto adlibs] I’ve been scared of forever since I learned what it meant I never had a home, just places I rent Love feels foreign, trust feels fake So I kill every flower before it turns snake You wanted soil, I gave you gravel and stone You wanted a garden, I gave you weeds that I own Every petal I touch, somehow it folds Guess my hands too cold for the roots to hold ⸻ 🔹 [BRIDGE – Minimal beat, guitar only] You bring vases… I bring weeds You pray for peace… I sow disease You want love… I want release So I give you flowers… that never breathe ⸻ 🔹 [FINAL HOOK – Higher emotional push] All I give is dead roses, baby, that’s the only type I know They pretty at first, but they die real slow I plant ‘em with good intent, but they grow with cold You love me like spring — but I come with snow Every time I give my heart, it come with stains I paint you a garden, then it floods with rain You want warmth, but I only been raised in flame Dead roses in my hand, girl — I love with pain ⸻ 🔹 [OUTRO – Rain fades in, faint female voicemail] (soft, calm tone) “I don’t want flowers anymore… I want something that doesn’t die.” (guitar fades → silence)

“Dead Roses”