Paint the White Roses Red Lyrics

Jenny Van Alstyne © 2010


Paint the white roses red,
It's easier to live 
Inside your head.
Escape rejection there.
No one gets hurt,
No one but you,
No one gets hurt,
In imagination's bloom.

There roses don't
have any thorns,
and there you don't bleed.
But if you don't bleed,
how do you know,
know that you're alive?

Paint the white roses red,
It's easier to keep
Somethings unsaid.
Maybe, you can retreat,
but you can't pretend
the unsaids not there, 
'cause it's beside you,
the unsaid is there,
in everything you do.

Silence's a weight,
a weight all it's own.
There's nothing like
an uncomfortable one
to make you feel alone,
to make you feel
so damn alone.

Paint the white roses red,
it's easier to hide
with a clever disguise.
Hard to see the truth
when it is coated, 
coated in lies,
when it is coated,
coated thick in lies,
coated in lies,
coated in lies.