Dead Roses Bloom

(Verse 1)

I wore white for every funeral

Called it love, but it was beautiful lies

Kept my bruises underneath velvet sleeves

Smiled through tears and apologized

You swore forever with poison lips

Turned my heaven into a cage

And every time I’d break and run

I’d find another with the same old face

(Pre-Chorus)

I watered thorns and called them roses

Held onto ghosts that left me broken

I lost myself in someone else’s storm

Till there was nothing left to mourn

(Chorus)

Dead roses bloom in the dark somehow

Even after winter tears them down

I’ve been buried underneath the pain

But roots remember how to live again

I don’t need saving, I survived the flood

I’ve washed your name out of my blood

And though my heart still bears the scars you left

I’m learning how to love myself

Dead roses bloom…

(Verse 2)

Empty rooms and midnight echoes

Photographs I couldn’t throw away

Spent a thousand lonely Sundays

Learning how to hear my own name

I met the girl inside the mirror

She was shattered, she was afraid

But piece by piece she stitched together

Everything they tried to take

(Pre-Chorus)

No more kingdoms built on promises

No more crowns made out of loneliness

I’m not waiting for somebody else

To tell me I deserve myself

(Chorus)

Dead roses bloom in the dark somehow

Even after winter tears them down

I’ve been buried underneath the pain

But roots remember how to live again

I don’t need saving, I survived the flood

I’ve washed your name out of my blood

And though my heart still bears the scars you left

I’m learning how to love myself

Dead roses bloom…

(Bridge)

I danced alone among the ruins

Found peace inside the silence too

And if another heart comes near me

They’ll have to love me like I do

No chains, no fear, no shattered dreams

No losing who I’m meant to be

I’d rather walk these gardens alone

Than call another prison home

(Final Chorus)

Dead roses bloom when spring returns

And every scar becomes a lesson learned

I was ashes underneath the moon

Now I’m growing where the shadows grew

And maybe someday, hand in hand

Someone gentle will understand

But until then, I’m enough for me

And that’s the sweetest victory

Dead roses bloom in crimson light

After surviving endless nights

What they buried wasn’t love or doom—

It was me…

And dead roses bloom.

(Outro)

Among the thorns

I found my roots

And I came back to life.