Rust & Roses Intro (viskat): Silver in the hair, iron in the blood... Rust blooms where the roses stood... Verse 1: I’m twenty inside, but my bones disagree A heart full of thunder, but a spine on its knees The mirror’s a traitor, it laughs in decay While I dress up the corpse in a cabaret Chorus: Rust and roses, wilted crown Kings of nothing, wearing time like a gown Sing me praises, sing me lies Make me holy as my body dies Verse 2: Once I was fire, now I’m smoke in the breeze Once I was hunger, now I choke on the feast I swore I was more than the flesh and the frame Now I’m a candle melting in its shame Bridge: Peel the skin, taste the rust Turn this temple into dust Kiss the grave before it yawns Dance in ruin till the dawn Stick: Raise the bones, raise the glass Celebrate the hourglass Rust and roses, blood and wine Kneel before the end of time! Final Chorus: Rust and roses, wilted crown Kings of nothing, wearing time like a gown Sing me praises, sing me lies Make me holy as my body dies (Outro: Fade med körer som mässar “Rust and Roses…”)
