[Intro – low voice, close to the mic] You drew a flower on my skin Black as every place we’ve been Said, “If the whole damn world turns cold I’ll still be here, I’ll still hold” [Verse 1] I learned young what my hands could ruin Every touch left something bruising Locks gave way, steel turned thin That’s how the dark first let me in You found me there with poison hands A punk kid making broken plans You kissed the fear out of my mouth And said we’d never turn back now [Pre-Chorus] But every road beneath these streets Takes something more with every week And every promise that we made Looks darker underneath the blade [Chorus] Black rose warning Under my skin Still love you deeply Still don’t know where we end Black rose warning Thorns in the vein You call it freedom I call it running again If I step into the daylight Will you follow where I go? Or will you stay behind forever With the black rose warning below? [Verse 2] You wear the night like it was chosen I wear mine like something stolen You say we’re buried far too deep That ghosts don’t leave, they disappear clean But I saw what loyalty became When Latch walked out and left your name I burned through walls, I bled myself dry While he just watched the signal die [Pre-Chorus] Then old friends came without a price No deals, no threats, no alibis And for the first time I could see The dark was never loyalty [Chorus] Black rose warning Under my skin Still love you deeply Still don’t know where we end Black rose warning Thorns in the vein You call it freedom I call it running again If I step into the daylight Will you follow where I go? Or will you stay behind forever With the black rose warning below? [Bridge – bass-led, half-spoken] You keep texting, “Come back home” But home was never stone and bone It was your head against my chest Your hand in mine when I was wrecked I don’t want clean I don’t want pure I just want one life I can endure I don’t need saving Neither do you But love can’t live On lies we choose [Breakdown] No more locks No more deals No more saying pain isn’t real No more ghosts No more chains No more kissing through the acid rain [Final Chorus] Black rose warning Burning in black I still love you But I won’t keep crawling back Black rose warning Cutting me slow You are my heartbeat But not every place I must go If I step into the daylight I will leave the door unclosed But I can’t keep dying in the shadows Just to prove I love the rose [Outro – soft, almost whispered] You drew a flower on my skin Black as every place we’ve been If the whole damn world turns cold I’ll still love you I just won’t fold
