Black Rose - Future Islands

Lead not for loss

And you’ll bleed not for long

Lost in streets, unnamed by your fate

Go unplayed, all the records, you’ve reclaimed

But it’s easy, in the winter

Where the white smoke

Rises slow like finding, something waiting

Where no one goes

It makes a sound like dying

Was it trying to say

«I'd give you all and diamonds, just for one more replay»

Just one chance to say

Keep me close, I’ll never weep

My love’s asleep

I’ve kept it close and guarded tight

From dead of night

And laid a cross of iron dross upon my door

The way you laid across our bed some time before

In the winter

There’s a black rose

Its beauty, something blinding

Curling wilding

Through the white snow

It makes me feel like diamonds

Was it dying to say

«I'll give you all but silence, just for one more replay»

Just one chance to say

«As my lover goes my garden grows»

As she looks away I hear her say

«As my garden grows, my lover goes»

«As we look away, I hear him say»

«Stay.»