Black flower

VERSE 1
Midnight presses on the windowpane
I trace the shape of you in falling rain
The shadow where your warmth used to be
A hollow room that still remembers me
You left a seed of silence in my chest
Blooming quietly into my unrest

PRE-CHORUS
I water wounds I know will never heal
Hope’s just a rumor that I can’t feel

CHORUS
Black flower, blooming in the dark of me
Petals falling like the promises you keep
You were colored once, now you’re only ache
Black flower, every breath you take, I break
I’m left holding soil that’s full of your ghost
Missing what I loved the most
What I loved the most...

VERSE 2
Streetlights flicker through my sleepless grief
Every corner is a photograph of what you leave
I keep replaying all the small goodbyes
Counting tiny fractures where the daylight lies
Your name is bitter on my tongue, it’s true
A perfume of the past I can’t undo

PRE-CHORUS
Wish I could pull the roots and set it free
But even graves keep pulling back at me

BRIDGE
If I plant a thousand lights to chase the night
They’ll just cast longer shadows of your flight
I speak in wilting metaphors and sighs
Counting all the ways to say goodbye
Hope is fragile, hope is lean and thin

OUTRO
Nights keep the shape of you and never speak
Black flower, I tend the wound you left so deep
I watch it fold and fall, no sun to learn
A quiet bloom that never will return.