Root and Velvet

(Verse 1)

You show yourself in a burning hue,

Soft to the touch, chasing after the sun.

A silk display that’s drenched in dew,

A quiet bloom before the day is done.

The world admires the shape and the scent,

The fragrance drifting without a care;

But no one asks where the strength is spent,

Beneath the stem, in the soil down there.

(Chorus - The Heart of the Metaphor)

Because the petal represents our vulnerability,

our capacity to love and to be hurt.

It’s what the world sees, a fragile reality,

Searching for a hold in the dust and the dirt.

The petal is what attracts, what first fades away,

what surrenders to cold if there's no strong root.

It’s beauty exposed to the gray of the day,

If it lacks the anchor to bear its own fruit.

(Verse 2)

There are thorns that guard the center of your chest,

Silver scars you’ve learned how to keep.

It’s not pride or anger, just the soul's request

To choose who enters where the heart is deep.

Let the rain wash you, let the wind blow wild,

Let them tear a piece of your garden skin;

As long as you drink from the depths, my child,

No shadow can ever truly win.

(Bridge)

You rolled the dice and you landed in the sand,

Where the flowers grow and they know how to bleed.

The number is high, but you understand,

The petal is just a way to lead.

(Chorus)

Because the petal represents our vulnerability,

(Our capacity to love and to be hurt...)

It’s what the world sees... but it fades away,

If there’s no strong root to survive the day.

(Outro)

Tend to your root...

The petal is just the wind.

Tend to your root...

Let the rest begin.