Rose On My Grave

[Verse 1]
You said it's just a flower
I said it's how I feel
Curled up in a corner
Petals made of steel
Red like every breakdown
Sharp like every word
Bleeding on my fingers
But I still hold it firm
[Chorus]
I love roses
For the shape of their ache
How they open like a secret
And still keep me awake
Beauty and the bruise
Truth tangled in veins
When I'm gone
Let it say my name
Lay a rose on my grave
[Verse 2]
I don't care how they smell
I don't crave some perfect kiss
I trace the crooked edges
All the cuts I won't forget
Pretty isn't gentle
Pretty can still scream
A thousand tiny knives
Hiding in the dream
[Chorus]
I love roses
For the shape of their ache
How they open like a secret
And still keep me awake
Beauty and the bruise
Truth tangled in veins
When I'm gone
Let it say my name
Lay a rose on my grave
[Bridge]
Not for love songs
Not for you
For the parts of me
That never grew
For the girl who stayed
And the one who ran
For the pain that made me
More than I had planned
[Chorus]
I love roses
For the shape of their ache
How they open like a secret
And still keep me awake
Beauty and the bruise
Truth tangled in veins
When I'm gone
Don't bring anything else
Just a rose on my grave

pop, Emo-pop ballad with female vocals, clean electric guitar arpeggios and intimate verse production that swells into a punchy, wide-chorus wall of guitars and synth pads; drums grow from soft rim clicks to big, crashing snares, with double-tracked vocals and haunting harmonies on the hook, ending in a stripped-back final line and lingering reverb tail, emo, romantic