[Intro]
Roses under glass
Never touch the rain
Beautiful and breathless
Still arranged in pain

[Verse]
We kept the best of what we were
In rooms where nothing could occur
No weather came, no seasons passed
Just roses sleeping under glass
Your letters lay in perfect rows
Like petals no one overthrows
I read them when the nights were long
And made the silence into song

[Pre-Chorus]
But beauty without air will fade
A shrine can turn into a blade
The more I save, the more I lose
The more I love the wound I choose

[Chorus]
Roses under glass
Red as all we never said
Living in the past
Where every kiss is never dead
Roses under glass
Pretty prison, perfect pain
I kept us safe from time
But nothing living could remain

[Verse]
The photographs were lit by dust
Two younger ghosts who smiled at trust
Your hand in mine, my eyes on you
A lie can still be partly true
I touched the frame and felt it freeze
A winter growing from my knees
I wanted memory to last
But not like roses under glass

[Pre-Chorus]
But beauty without air will fade
A shrine can turn into a blade
The more I save, the more I lose
The more I love the wound I choose

[Chorus]
Roses under glass
Red as all we never said
Living in the past
Where every kiss is never dead
Roses under glass
Pretty prison, perfect pain
I kept us safe from time
But nothing living could remain

[Interlude]
No rain
No sun
No soil
No one
Red bloom
Cold room
Still love
Still tomb

[Bridge]
I thought preservation meant devotion
I thought stillness meant control
But love becomes a frozen ocean
When it cannot move or roll
I cannot keep the first night breathing
I cannot polish back the flame
I cannot make a corpse of feeling
And pretend it is the same

[Breakdown]
Lift the glass
Let them die
Let the petals
Touch the sky
Lift the glass
Let them fall
Better broken
Than nothing at all

[Build-up]
The case is cracking
The air comes through
The flowers tremble
Like I once did for you
The case is cracking
The room turns wide
The roses are dying
But something survives

[Chorus]
Roses under glass
Red as all we never said
Living in the past
Where every kiss is never dead
Roses under glass
Pretty prison, perfect pain
I kept us safe from time
But nothing living could remain

[Chorus]
Roses under glass
Let the velvet weather pass
Let the petals hit the floor
I cannot worship this anymore
Roses under glass
All our beauty, all our shame
I kept us safe from time
But nothing living could remain

[Outro]
Roses under glass
Finally feel the rain
Something has to wither
Something breathes again