[Intro] You reached through the dark and you touched my hand You thought it was love... I knew it was the end. [Verse 1] I should have warned you I should have lied I should have vanished before you tried To find something human beneath all the thorns But witches like me are not gently born We rise where the roots drink deep from the past We bloom in the darkness we never bloom fast And everyone touching the place where we are Carries us home... as a small red mark. [Pre-Chorus] I wanted to leave before it reached your heart But once I have touched you... I can't stop the mark. [Chorus] YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD RUN BUT THE DARKNESS KNOWS YOUR NAME! THAT'S WHERE I END AND THAT'S WHERE I BEGIN! LIKE ROOTS INSIDE YOUR VEINS I'M PULLING YOU AGAIN! EVERY TIME YOU FORGET ME I BLOOM THERE AGAIN! You can stand in the storm you can curse my name But witches don't forgive and witches don't tame! THE RED MARK! BURNING IN YOUR HEART! You thought you escaped me... But witches never part. NO ESCAPE! NO ESCAPE! YOU CARRY THE MARK! [Bittersweet Guitar Interlude] I never wanted this... But the roots grow deep... [Verse 2] I watched from the trees when the fever took hold You stood in the rain while your blood turned cold You called me a poison you called me a lie But I saw how you waited each night for the sky You hated the feeling but feared when it stopped Because even my poison... was more than you had. [Pre-Chorus] You think you are healing you think we're apart Then thunder rolls over... and wakes up the mark. [Chorus] YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD RUN BUT THE DARKNESS KNOWS YOUR NAME! THAT'S WHERE I END AND THAT'S WHERE I BEGIN! LIKE ROOTS INSIDE YOUR VEINS I'M PULLING YOU AGAIN! EVERY TIME YOU FORGET ME I BLOOM THERE AGAIN! You can stand in the storm you can curse my name But witches don't forgive and witches don't tame! THE RED MARK! BURNING IN YOUR HEART! You thought you escaped me... But witches never part. NO ESCAPE! NO ESCAPE! YOU CARRY THE MARK! [Bridge] (low bass, clean guitar, quiet spoken) They told me once... every girl is born a flower. Some turn toward the sun. Some close beneath the rain. And some of us... grow where the dead remember pain. I never asked to leave scars. But flowers like me... do not know the difference between love and disease. You were calling through the blood! You were pulling through the dark! You thought the curse belonged to you— BUT I CAN FEEL THE MARK! [Final Chorus] YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD RUN BUT THE DARKNESS KNOWS YOUR NAME! THAT'S WHERE I END AND THAT'S WHERE I BEGIN! LIKE ROOTS INSIDE YOUR VEINS I'M PULLING YOU AGAIN! EVERY TIME YOU FORGET ME I BLOOM THERE AGAIN! You can stand in the storm till you're numb from the rain You can tear out my memory and scream out my name BUT THE RED MARK! STILL BURNS IN YOUR HEART! You were never my victim... We were doomed from the start! NO ESCAPE! NO ESCAPE! NO ESCAPE! [Outro] (Bittersweet clean guitar, rain fading, soft haunting) Look beneath your skin... (Whispered) I'm already born. [End]
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