We’ve been together for as long as I
can remember
If I was a raging fire you were that
first ember
You cheered me up every time I got
depressed
You got me through the moments that
I felt stressed
Every time that I needed you, you were always there
That amazing feeling you gave me
nothing could compare
I had to see you multiple times just
to get through the day
How I felt when you weren’t around is
a feeling I can’t convey
I’d do anything and everything just to
spend time with you
I would sell my very soul if that’s what
I had to do
The help you once gave me became
a thing of the past
I now see clearly the dark shadow on
my life you had cast
Everything you made me feel turned out
to be lies
Not a friend at all, you were the devil in disguise
I needed to find a way to keep you from coming back
I found NA meetings is what keeps me
on the right track
Working the 12 step program and finding
my higher power
Being able to kick my addiction and
leaving you to cower
Black rose, black rose all may know your beauty
but your pain nobody knows.
Black rose, black rose oh the sorrow that you hold,
I feel it tearing deep into my soul, but you'll never let me close.
I guess that's why you were born with oh so many thorns, but just to be close to you
I'll be gladly sliced and torn.
Black rose, black rose the agony would be worth it all, just to feel a love
none has known before.
Black rose, black rose oh the power that you hold, all the horrors left untold,
your eyes are sullen and stoic like a stone.
Black rose, black rose let me bleed upon your thorns, let my lifeblood be adorned,
for me you'll never have to mourn my black rose.
Black rose
There is silence in turmoil… joy in the midst of pain
Sweetness in the bitter… music in the rain
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