In the life of a rose I've lived and died 100 times You've watched me open, bloom, wilt, rot And start over (start over) You watch me again, and again, and again, and again And each time My time, measured in light, final breaths, finding, losing Time,

Ladies let 'em check up on it, watch it while he check up on it Ooh, boy, you looking like you like what you see Won't you come over and check up on it I'm-a let you work up on it Dip it, pop it, twerk it, stop it, check on me tonight Swizz Beatz DC,

Already dead to me now Time wears away All the pleasures of the day All the treasures you could hold Days turn to sand Losing strength in every hand They can't hold you anymore 'Coz it feels like I'm watching something die Love looks away

Dream over, grieve no more And I breathe one last time Now I lay thee down Was it lost? Was it murdered? Within the eye of the beholder Oh, I want to know How it feels when we die Can you take me under? Oh, she watched me leave

Burn me alive Set me on fire And watch me die Watch me resurrect Right before your eyes And watch me burn And watch me I feel this is the beginning The beginning through the end

Burn me alive Set me on fire And watch me die Watch me resurrect Right before your eyes And watch me burn And watch me I feel this is the beginning The beginning through the end

Every time you try to leave me blind, You'll never close my eyes, Why don't we end this lie, I can't pretend this time, I need a friend to find my broken mind, Before it falls to pieces!! You'll never close my eyes and watch me die!! You said you'd never

From what you do...because of you... You know I can't be there each time that you call I swore not to come, but I'm here after all I know by the look that I see in your eye I won't stand around and I won't watch you die (What you do, what you do, was

This means war Hide my face again, harbor in the shadows Feel this weight of sin hammering away Die, with the guilt of a thousand AWOL soldiers Die, watch the scythe usher me astray I can't go on this way Not as I am today The ugly side of me is strong

I'm gonna build a fire in the middle of July Burn your pictures and go for a drive Down to the river Watch the ink from your love letters fade Come back home and turn that old mattress over Pour out the whiskey try wakin' up sober Gonna change it all