Johanna Warren - Rose Potion Lyrics

The dead walk behind me
Though I do not recognize their faces,
I know they are here to remind me
Of the space between the spaces
I’m drinking down a potion
I decocted from the roses in my garden
When my spirits told me
They could feel my heart was hardening
(chorus)
What you call God
I call the mysteries of the Universe
What difference does it really make after all?
If we had another chance to do it right
I’d give it all I had
Just like I did before when you left me with nothing at all
The darkness this has brought upon me
Hungers for the pain, like when I was young
And losing teeth,
Which I loved to wiggle so deliciously with my tongue
Now I see you’re not a perfect prism,
Just the perfect foil for my masochism
Tell me, do I look different to you
In light of our little cataclysm?
(chorus)
I’m tired and I feel ashamed

Of how I’ve let my narcissism reign untamed
And yet I know that to blame myself
Is part of the same old game
The only way to get free is to die
Without dying
And I’m ready to give it a try
At least I think so – but to change is terrifying
(chorus)
They kissed my petals with their vapor lips
And savored my salty fingertips
And cradled me in thorny
Branches til the morning
came.