Toss the coin into the abyss

Heads the other wins

Tails you lose

Either way

My blood calls

Loneliness spawns insecurity

But to put your faith in high fidelity

Another's indelibly

Unpredictable voice of alterity

The reality is much harder to predict

When a need hits harder than the want to feel fits

My heel digs into the bowel of the abyss

I don't want the need to feel this

The tide is turning

On my endless reckoning

Now I know

The beauty of a rose without thorns

Intoxicating

I see it grow

All I wanted is here with me

I know where to find the new growth

A place that only fools and the insane know

I can make this into a quest

Turning challenge into a test

Of my heart, of my mind and of myself

A battle between my happiness and my health

I'll find it and then I will win

Then I'll have a new quest to begin

The tide is turning

On my endless reckoning

Now I know

The beauty of a rose without thorns

Intoxicating

I see it grow

All I wanted is here with me

I see your flaws as they

Also belong to me

The failures that I see

Are part of your story

I cannot protect you

From all your enemies

But I will prepare you

To fight for your right to be

Free

To be free

To be you

To cut your own way

The beauty of a rose

Held as you grow

Born of me

So there is

No sacrifice to make

Only purity

From the moment you were born

I could not feel your thorns

I'll never let you feel

How it was for me

I'll be there for you

Endlessly

Because I know how it feels to be alone

A stranger in your own home

I'll hold you when you cry

Until the day I die

You're not alone

It's in my gift to make that so

Now I know

The beauty of a rose without thorns

Intoxicating

I see it grow

All I wanted is here with me

Stronger than you will ever know

A rose without thorns