**Lyrics and lyric/song structure written and created by 👻 GHOST 👻** [instrumental intro somber, echo, ambient] (they said love heals... i turned it into theater.) [verse 1 fragile, almost sweet; but there’s rot in the roses] i saw her light and shut my eyes i told her truth, she fed me lies she called me kind, i played along but kindness feels like something wrong i held her close, but not too tight i learned to flinch from what feels right she sang in keys my heart forgot and i rewrote her into rot [pre-chorus velvet vocals, sugar-laced guilt] i never learned what love could mean just silence wrapped in nicotine so when she stayed, i thought it was lust i called it fear… but it was just [chorus spiraling, grand, like falling in love and trying to ruin it quietly] paper rings and guillotine swings she gave me joy, then clipped my wings i wore a crown of quiet self-hate and cursed what i thought was once great she held me soft, i pulled away and blamed her heart for why i strayed i want to love, i swear i do but real things make me come unglued [verse 2 more unhinged, admitting the cracks] i called her “home,” she called it wrong i spoke in truth, she turned to con i laugh too loud, i kiss too fast then ruined things i wish would last she cried in jokes, i made them poems turned lullabies to lonely psalms she said, “i’m bad", i said, “i know.” and loved her harder... made her glow [pre-chorus softer, aching with shame] i never asked for perfect things just something real beneath the strings but every time i let her in she stabbed my hope to save her skin [chorus more theatrical, yet drowning] paper rings and guillotine swings she made a mess of everything she danced in light, so i drew the blinds then screamed her name inside my mind i kissed the parts she tried to drown and wore her chaos like a crown she saw my cracks and didn’t flee and that alone nearly killed me [bridge quiet, like a haunted lullaby in a child’s bedroom] if she had run, i’d call her smart but there she stood, arms 'round my heart i loved her once, then once again 'cause love like that just never ends... [final chorus crumbling but regal, like a ruined prince in a snow globe] paper rings and self-made scars i stayed, while she pulled us apart i loved her deep, she wore it thin a masterpiece i tossed in wind but if she calls, i’ll run, i swear not to escape, but to repair just me, my pain, and a ball-point pen to write her out... and start it over again [outro breathy, eerie, like the lullaby's ending where the carousel winds down] i loved her true… then she made me see god help the man who thinks he’s freed.
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