Red Like Roses - Part II (feat. Casey Lee Williams & Sandy Casey) - Jeff Williams

[00:00.43]I couldn't take it couldn't stand another minute
[00:02.40]Couldn't bear another day without you in it
[00:04.50]All of the joy that I had known in my life
[00:06.80]Was stripped away from me the minute that you died
[00:09.12]To have you in my life was all I ever wanted
[00:11.51]But now without you I'm a soul forever haunted
[00:13.60]Can't help but feel that I had taken you for granted
[00:15.79]No way in hell that I can ever comprehend this
[00:17.81]I wasn't dreaming when they told me you were gone
[00:20.31]I was wide awake and feeling that they had to be wrong
[00:22.41]How could you leave me when you swore that you would stay
[00:24.89]Now I'm trapped inside a nightmare every single thing day
[00:26.97]It's like a movie but there's not a happy ending
[00:29.17]Every scene fades black and there's no pretending
[00:31.70]This little fairy tale doesn't seem to end well
[00:33.78]There's no knight in shining armor who will wake me from the spell
[00:36.95]I know you didn't plan this
[00:41.72]You tried to do what's right
[00:45.09]But in the middle of this madness
[00:50.04]I'm the one you left to win this fight
[01:03.53]Red like roses
[01:08.29]Fills my head with dreams and finds me
[01:11.98]Always closer
[01:17.25]To the emptiness and sadness
[01:19.46]That has come to take the place of you
[01:22.53]I know you’re broken down by anger and by sadness;
[01:24.38]You feel I left you in a world that’s full of madness
[01:27.16]Wish I could talk to you, if only for a minute;
[01:29.19]Make you understand the reasons why I did it
[01:31.04]I wanna tell you that you’re all that ever mattered;
[01:33.61]Want you to know that, for eternity, I’m shattered
[01:35.85]I tried so hard just to protect you, but I failed to
[01:38.13]And in a prison of abandonment I’ve jailed you
[01:40.39]I never planned that I would leave you there alone
[01:42.52]I was sure that I would see you when I made it back home
[01:44.87]And all the times I swore that it would be okay;
[01:47.03]Now I’m nothing but a liar, and you're thrown into the fray
[01:49.24]This bedtime story ends with misery ever after
[01:51.55]The pages are torn, and there’s no final chapter
[01:53.85]I didn’t have a choice, I did what I had to do;
[01:56.08]I made a sacrifice, but forced a bigger sacrifice on you
[01:59.67]I know you've lived a nightmare;
[02:03.14]I caused you so much pain
[02:08.08]But, baby, please don’t do what I did;
[02:11.59]I don’t want you to waste your life in vain
[02:24.96]Red like roses
[02:30.39]Fills my head with dreams and finds me
[02:35.04]Always closer
[02:39.70]To the emptiness and sadness
[02:41.82]That has come to take the place of you
[02:45.34]You’re not the only one who needed me; I thought you understood
[02:49.49]You were the one I needed, and you left me as I always feared you would
[02:53.85]Would I change it if I could?
[02:58.04]It doesn’t matter how
[03:00.22]The petals scatter now
[03:02.06]Every nightmare just discloses
[03:04.69]It’s your blood that’s red like roses
[03:07.06]And no matter what I do
[03:08.93]Nothing ever takes the place of you
[03:39.78]Red like roses
[03:43.82]Fills my head with dreams and finds me
[03:47.85]Always closer
[03:52.99]To the emptiness and sadness
[03:54.98]That has come to take the place of you