[Verse 1] They only saw the shadow where the garden used to bleed A silhouette of iron stems rooted in old neglect He was a crimson tremor once, a soft, defenceless thing Who split his chest wide open for the hands he hoped to keep [Verse 2] He gave them every velvet inch, the fragrance of his youth But love is cheap to collectors, and they pulled him root by root One broke him for the novelty, to watch a strong man bend Another took his innocence and left it in the dust [Pre-Chorus] They stripped away his color, petal by bleeding petal Until the soil beneath him tasted heavy of his rust How many times can one heart break before the fabric tears? How many times can you cry out to unheeding, frozen air? [Chorus] Now they look upon his coldness and they judge the jagged thorns They whisper at his distance, and they wonder why he mourns They want the easy beauty, but they never ask to see The cemetery buried where his spirit used to be [Verse 3] He does not speak his agony, he holds it all inside A suffocating darkness where his dying embers hide So let them wonder at the ice, and fear the midnight shade He's tired of the weeping and the promises betrayed [Bridge] The boy who loved so blindly died a thousand scars ago Beneath the heavy, crushing weight of unreturned devotion No crimson left to give, no warmth behind his eyes Just a hollow, frozen black rose beneath forgotten skies [Breakdown] No crimson left No warmth behind his eyes Black rose Black rose Buried beneath forgotten skies [Final Chorus] Now they look upon his coldness and they judge the jagged thorns They whisper at his distance, and they wonder why he mourns They want the easy beauty, but they never ask to see The cemetery buried where his spirit used to be [Outro] The boy who loved so blindly died a thousand scars ago A hollow, frozen black rose beneath forgotten skies
