The Maze of Damask Tears

[Intro]
[Verse]
The damask petals weep
Secrets that I keep
Tucked beneath the thorn
Before the day is born
I smooth the velvet red
Where royal footsteps tread
My ink is dark and deep
While the palace is asleep
[Pre-Chorus]
The sundial’s face is cracked
Time is turning back
I watch the shadows crawl
Along the garden wall
The gilded gates are locked
And my heavy heart is mocked
[Chorus]
In the center of the maze
Lost in a velvet haze
I wait behind the gate
Testing the hands of fate
But the twilight turns to grey
As you turn your heart away
My letters stay unknown
Carved in the garden stone
[Post-Chorus]
Fragile and gold
A story untold
Fading in the cold
[Verse]
The glockenspiel rings clear
But you are never near
I hear the trumpet’s moan
Chilled and all alone
The bassoon’s heavy breath
Sings of a quiet death
Of every word I wrote
In every hidden note
[Pre-Chorus]
The lantern flicker dies
Beneath the heavy skies
The parchment starts to fold
In the damp and in the cold
I count the dying light
In the middle of the night
[Chorus]
In the center of the maze
Lost in a velvet haze
I wait behind the gate
Testing the hands of fate
But the twilight turns to grey
As you turn your heart away
My letters stay unknown
Carved in the garden stone
[Bridge]
Blue silk and noble blood
Lost in the rising flood
Of a love that cannot be
For a gardener like me
I’ll bury every line
Where the ivy starts to twine
No one will ever see
What you meant to me
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
In the center of the maze
Lost in a velvet haze
I wait behind the gate
Testing the hands of fate
But the twilight turns to grey
As you turn your heart away
My letters stay unknown
Carved in the garden stone
[Post-Chorus]
Fragile and gold
A story untold
Fading in the cold
Waiting for a ghost
Who forgot me the most
[Outro]