Lyrics

**Verse 1:**
*They found her shoes in the August weeds,*
*A pink backpack, a snapped bike chain.*
*The sirens screamed what the crosswalk pleaded,*
*But heaven’s gate swung wide for rain.*
*Rose, eleven, with daisies in her hair,*
*Left a skid-mark hymn in the asphalt prayer.*

**Chorus:**
***Now she sleeps in a rose garden tomb—***
*Petals for flesh, thornless bloom.*
*Her laughter’s etched in the willow’s sigh,*
*Where fireflies write *“goodbye”* in the sky.*
***Angels fold her chalk-dust dreams,***
*In a field where the sunburst streams.*

**Verse 2:**
*Momma plants marigolds where she fell,*
*Dad tucks her bear in an empty shell.*
*Her room’s a shrine of half-read books,*
*Unfinished math sheets, sideways looks.*
*The schoolyard echoes her hopscotch rhyme,*
*A ghostly game stuck in stopped time.*

**Bridge (The Driver’s Lament):**
*I brake at shadows, flinch at red,*
*See her smile in the road ahead.*
*God, I’d trade my breath for hers—*
*Reverse the clock, let the tires swerve.*
*But the judge of stars wrote a different end,*
*Where her pain’s my hell… and grace won’t mend.*

**Chorus (Heaven’s Reply):**
***She dances now in a rose garden dawn—***
*No scars, no brakes, no sidewalks gone.*
*Her voice is the wind through the lilac rows,*
*Her joy, the dew where the morning grows.*
***Earth’s grief is a seed in the soil she tends—***
*Her love blooms where the hurt ends.*

**Outro (Mother’s Whisper):**
*(Spoken over a music box melody)*
*“Sleep tight, Rosie… don’t mind the storm.*
*The God you loved’s keeping you warm.*
*I’ll meet you where the roses climb—*
*Beyond the crosswalk… beyond the time