Elexa Veil - A Thousand Thorns - Official Audio

[Verse 1] You came to me with open hands. Said you could carry what I couldn’t. I never asked you to take it. You promised I could rest. So I showed you how to keep it alive. Every fragile thing. Every careful step. And you listened like it mattered. [Pre-Chorus] I left the words beside you. Every warning plain to see. You said you understood. And I believed you. [Chorus] You offered to tend the garden. Then salted every root. And stood among the dying things asking what you could do. Tell me, what kind of love puts poison in the water? [Verse 2] It was only one small seed. One patch of earth. The way was marked. The book lay open. Yet somehow you found a thousand thorns where nothing ever grew. You said the words were tangled. That the simplest things were more than you could bear. But I’ve watched you move mountains for the things you wanted. And you couldn’t turn a page for me. [Pre-Chorus] I kept looking for the devil at the door. Never thought to question what was already inside. [Chorus] You offered to tend the garden. Then salted every root. And stood among the dying things asking what you could do. Tell me, what kind of love puts poison in the water? [Bridge] I never asked you to move mountains. Only tend what you had promised. And when I asked why you let it die, you bared your teeth. As though the question were the cruelty. As though my pain were your punishment. [Breakdown] Strange. How helpless your hands become when there’s nothing in it for you. [Final Chorus] You offered to tend the garden. I gave you everything. And I was losing pieces of myself trying to teach you how to care. [Outro] I thought you didn’t know how to save it. Now I wonder if you ever meant to.