Steps Ascending

I ran down the stairs and into the garden,
Put both my hands into the soil.
In the spring, you will bloom,
Like her heart, through the blouse, in the back of the ambulance,
As it turned and turned down the streets
(One more turn, won't you come back to me?)
As it turned its red lights,
You were turning into red roses
Red roses
Red roses
Red roses
I'm not giving up.

- from "Steps Ascending" by Thursday

"Aurora Maciel. Clearly, I've overestimated your intelligence. Did you really think Roseanna was Briar Rose?"

If Layla had walked up the stairs minutes earlier
If Rhys had left her room minutes later

Maybe then the princess wouldn't have been ensnared in endless sleep
-- in death --
Maybe then the color wouldn't have drained
Until all that was left of her
Was the remains of the White Rose

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Geoff Rickly, vocalist and songwriter of Thursday, told an audience that this song was written for a childhood friend of his who was killed in a gun accident before they could make amends after they had gotten into a fight. So if you and your friend are fighting over some stupid retarded bullshit, be the better person and make things better before that person is gone.

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