[Verse I] They say you grew where light still dared To touch the broken stone A quiet thing with open hands Unaware of where you’d sown I watched you learn the shape of days As if they would be kind I knew the ground beneath your feet I knew the fault was mine [Pre-Chorus] Every time you called it peace I felt the ground give way I’ve seen what hope looks like before Right before decay [Chorus] You were a flower in the open Reaching for the sun I was the ruin underneath Where nothing ever comes I kept trying even when it bloomed That’s the part that hurts Some love is born in daylight Some dies in the dirt [Verse II] You spoke in futures soft and warm Like they were meant to stay I heard them like a fragile oath I’d already betray You rested in the moment’s breath As if it would hold fast I learned to read the coming cracks In every gentle laugh [Pre-Chorus II] You never asked me to be more Than honest where I stand But standing still is waiting For the ruin to expand [Chorus] You were a flower in the open I was weathered stone Every root you tried to set Was something I’d erode I kept reaching even when it grew Knowing how it ends Some hearts are made for shelter Some only break what bends [Bridge] I don’t curse the way you loved I curse the ground I am You leaned toward something living I collapsed beneath your hands You deserved a softer place Where growing doesn’t cost I’m not the storm that passes through I’m what it leaves across [Final Chorus – stripped] You were a flower meant for fields Not ruins dressed as land I loved you in the only way A ruin ever can [Outro] So I stepped away from the bloom Before the ground gave in Not to spare myself the loss But to spare you from it They’ll say a flower once lived here And maybe that is true But flowers aren’t meant to save the ruin They’re meant to outgrow it too
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