Lovely Thing Suite: Roses

[Chorus]

Don’t let my ghost drag you down

If you don’t see me around

It doesn’t mean that I fell

Yeah, I’m doing well

I got some roses to smell

I hope you smile when I’m gone

It means I had the strength to move on

To find another story to tell

To answer the bell

I got some roses to smell

[Verse 1]

When magic’s happening, my habit’s been coiling up a memory and trapping it right

In the cavity of my ribs, like the doors of a cabinet might

But you won’t hold onto a shadow just by grabbing it tight

Set it free and let it back in the light

Never out of my heart, even when out of my sight

Leaving is s'posed to be hard

Man, I thought it was so selfish of people I love to keep falling out of my life

But now I know (No, no)

No, I don’t take it personal (No, no)

If you got a really lovely place to go

I will chase my goals, yeah, to make me whole

Cause it’s urgent, we love and be loved

I’ve begun to scrub up with detergent to shine up my soul

[Chorus]

Don’t let my ghost drag you down

If you don’t see me around

It doesn’t mean that I fell

Yeah, I’m doing well

I got some roses to smell

I hope you smile when I’m gone

It means I had the strength to move on

To find another story to tell

To answer the bell

I got some roses to smell

[Verse 2]

Cause every screen that we tap is screaming that bigger is better

Better is how you make yourself matter, but matter is fleeting

Am I living to feed a machine that I’m blind to see?

No point in hiding my pride if there’s no privacy

I’ve already dedicated too much of my time to trying to get my followers up

And crying out for attention

And sleeping around to mend a hollow crater inside of me

Knowing well that it don’t mean shit

Going to the well for another cheap dopamine hit

I’m done being a bitch to ambition, I’m already rich

I got a head that’s full of million dollar questions

And the length of it is I don’t need the courage to work

I want the strength to quit

[Chorus]

Don’t let my ghost drag you down

If you don’t see me around

It doesn’t mean that I fell

Yeah, I’m doing well

I got some roses to smell

I hope you smile when I’m gone

It means I had the strength to move on

To find another story to tell

To answer the bell

I got some roses to smell