[Intro]

[Intro] (Instrumental Solo) [Verse 1] Seven years, the body reconfigures cells erase the maps they once nurtured they say the skin becomes uncharted ground but old ghosts still pace the same worn round You had eyes like midnight tempered glass a deep blue storm I let slip past Schlehe blooms with bitter fruit on bough thorn in bloom, and bitter root plowed [Pre-Chorus] You painted me in reckless, burning light hands stained violet, searing white not hunger, not the fevered bed just color where my pulse had bled [Chorus] Now there’s someone standing in the space with the same quiet tang of fear on his face dark hair, storm-grey gaze different name, familiar blaze Tell me, is this cruel design or mercy stitched in altered line If I reach, will he remain or shatter like you in my hands again [Verse 2] You went blind before you turned to leave lavender shadows where blue used to breathe I lied and said love thins with passing time like smoke dissolving into pine But he moves like unchained open air like he’s never known the bite of despair like he’s free of blood, free of the past and I know freedom never lasts [Pre-Chorus] He thinks I’m stone and copper flame rose and raven, weight of name says my walls are thin as a single breath doesn’t see the rot that waits beneath [Chorus] There’s someone standing in your place not your eyes, not your scarred face but when he looks, it cuts as deep like memory refusing to sleep If I touch him, will he fade like pigment bleeding in the rain Seven years and I still taste the night I let you waste away [Bridge] You said love was color, raw and wide dragged it bleeding to my side covered me in fearless, bleeding art while I clung tight to my careful heart He doesn’t paint he watches close like he’s choosing where his roots will grow And I am terrified of this of gentler hands, of steadier kiss of saying stay and meaning it [Final Chorus] Seven years to shed the skin but grief carves deeper from within He is not you he is not pain and that is the name I cannot claim If I let him see the scar if I tell him who we are will he still stand in the light or vanish at the weight of night [Outro] Schlehe blooms in early frost rose that never counted cost I lost you once I will not lose him because I was afraid