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Fading Like a Flower, Mum!

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[Instrumental] [Intro] (Scratching... noise needle fades in, turntable whispers) Fading out, fading slow, she’s sitting all alone TV glow on her face, cigarette in her hand Bottle empty by her side, no one understands (Scratching loop, turntable spins in silence) [Verse 1] She wakes up with no sunlight in her mind Every morning feels the same, another day to hide The voices in her head, they echo and rewind She’s drowning in her shadow, hope is hard to find Her phone never rings, the silence cuts her deep She smokes away the hours, her secrets never sleep A glass becomes a mirror of the pain she drinks away Her tears are falling quietly, night becomes her day [Pre-Chorus] Nobody’s calling, nobody’s near She plays the role of someone who disappears Her laughter faded, her colors gone A queen without a kingdom, left alone [Chorus] She’s fading like a flower, in a storm with no rain She’s fading by the hour, in a room with her pain The TV talks but never hears her cry She’s fading like a flower, left to die (Scratching... turntable spin, noise needle cuts) [Verse 2] She lights another smoke, the ashes mark the time Memories of better days, ghosts within her mind Her makeup hides the truth, the cracks beneath her skin A battle she keeps losing, she never lets them in The bottle is her only friend, her lover and her thief It steals away her heartbeat, it kills her own belief The screen shows smiling faces, lives she’ll never touch Her soul is screaming loudly, but silence says too much [Pre-Chorus] Nobody’s calling, nobody’s near She plays the role of someone who disappears Her laughter faded, her beauty torn A rose without a garden, left forlorn [Chorus] She’s fading like a flower, in a storm with no rain She’s fading by the hour, in a room with her pain The TV talks but never hears her cry She’s fading like a flower, left to die [Bridge] (Scratching sounds, broken turntable echoes) She remembers when love was more than smoke When her voice was a fire, when her heart never broke Now it’s silence and shadows, nothing left to give She’s alive but forgotten, too tired to live [Chorus - Reprise] She’s fading like a flower, petals fall to the ground She’s fading like a whisper, with no one around The TV glow is her only light She’s fading like a flower in the night [Outro] (Scratching... noise needle fades out, turntable silence) Fading out, fading slow, she’s sitting all alone TV glow on her face, cigarette in her hand Bottle empty by her side, no one understands (Fade-Out... like the beginning, fading slow)