“Dead Roses”

🔹 [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.”

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🔹 [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

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🔹 [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

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🔹 [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

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🔹 [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

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🔹 [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

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🔹 [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

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🔹 [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)