Your heartbeat is pulsing at night in your chest
It's gold and it's glowing with all the life you have left
I received your words from hospitals where you felt alone

Your words like smoke, they made me sick but they kept me warm

Run where you'll be safe

Through the garden gates
To the shelter of magnolias


Your eyes are like sea glass, so weathered and worn
From all they've seen of adolescence torn
The lovers who have tainted you, they pulled you into the night

They touched your skin with velvet gloves and made you feel alive

Run where you'll be safe

Through the garden gates
To the shelter of magnolias
There's not much time

The blush in the sky begins to fade

You are weathered and worn

Your petals soft and torn
The fading color
You have bent your shoulders

To hold the weight of the world
You will surely shatter


Run where you'll be safe
Through the garden gates
To the shelter of magnolias

There's not much time
The blush in the sky begins to fade