[Verse 1]
Her eyes, blue glass
Cut through my chest
Pretty like rain
Over a grave
Tattooed skin
On a porcelain frame
Ink on her arms
Like smoke in a flame
Dark hair falling
Over that grin
She says my name
Then pulls me in
[Pre-Chorus]
She spins me slow
Then leaves me cold
A thorn in silk
A hand of gold
I see the bruise
I want the bloom
I chase her heel
Right into doom
[Chorus]
Blue thorn rose
I keep running back
Blue thorn rose
You cut me just like that
Blue thorn rose
Pretty and cruel
Blue thorn rose
I still play the fool
(Blue thorn rose)
(Blue thorn rose)
[Verse 2]
She laughs like trouble
With sugar on her tongue
A kiss that burns
Before it’s begun
Her tattooed skin
Tells stories I can’t read
Every flower line
Looks like a warning to me
She takes my name
Then breaks it in two
Leaves me a trail
I can’t get through
And I know, I know
She’s poison in bloom
Still I lean in close
Like I need the wound
[Pre-Chorus]
She spins me slow
Then leaves me cold
A thorn in silk
A hand of gold
I see the bruise
I want the bloom
I chase her heel
Right into doom
[Chorus]
Blue thorn rose
I keep running back
Blue thorn rose
You cut me just like that
Blue thorn rose
Pretty and cruel
Blue thorn rose
I still play the fool
(Blue thorn rose)
(Blue thorn rose)
[Bridge]
If love is a garden
She’s the dark front gate
All pretty petals
And a locked-up fate
I touch the edge
I feel it sting
Still I follow her
Like a moth to kings
[Final Chorus]
Blue thorn rose
I keep running back
Blue thorn rose
You cut me just like that
Blue thorn rose
Pretty and cruel
Blue thorn rose
I still play the fool
Blue thorn rose
I know what you are
Blue thorn rose
Still I chase that scar
(Blue thorn rose)
(Blue thorn rose)