Petal On The Ground

Ah-ah-ah

Falling slowly

Ah-ah-ah

Like a petal on the ground

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Morning light slips through the blinds

Dust and gold across your side

Coffee cooling by the sink

Still pretending you’ll come speak to me

Your sweater hanging by the chair

Little traces everywhere

Funny how a room can ache

Even when there’s nothing left to break

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And I keep replaying

Every small goodbye

Like the stars are fading

One by one tonight

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I’m just a petal on the ground

Softly falling without a sound

You let the wind carry me away

Like love was only meant to stay

For a season

Now every streetlight flickers blue

Every memory leads to you

I bloom for you, then drift back down

A lonely petal on the ground

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Ooh-ooh

Floating through the silence

Ooh-ooh

Searching where your heart went

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Midnight train and blurry skies

Your name hidden in my mind

Everybody says it heals

But nobody tells me how it feels

To fold away a universe

Inside a box of little hurts

Photographs and perfume air

Ghosts of us still dancing there

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And I keep pretending

I’m okay somehow

But the spring is ending

And the flowers bow

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I’m just a petal on the ground

Softly falling without a sound

You let the wind carry me away

Like love was only meant to stay

For a season

Now every streetlight flickers blue

Every memory leads to you

I bloom for you, then drift back down

A lonely petal on the ground

⸻

If I could bloom again

Would you reach for me?

Or let me disappear

Into somebody else’s spring?

Maybe love was always temporary

Cherry blossoms in the breeze

Beautiful because it leaves

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I’m just a petal on the ground

But I still spin when you’re around

Even after all this time

Your shadow lives inside my mind

And though the season had to end

I’d still choose you all again

Even if it means falling down

Like a petal on the ground

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Ah-ah-ah

Falling slowly

Ah-ah-ah

Into yesterday

Ah-ah-ah

Still hoping somehow

You’ll pick me up

Before I touch the ground