BEAUTIFUL THINGS STILL DIE

Lyrics

(Verse 1) The flowers opened by the window For a week the whole room changed Then the petals touched the table And the colours rearranged I used to think that what was precious Should be permanent somehow That love was proven by endurance That forever started now But seasons never sign agreements And beauty never makes a vow Some things arrive to change us Without promising to stay around (Pre-Chorus) There is no failure in an ending No betrayal in decay Something can be deeply sacred And still be meant to pass away (Chorus) Beautiful things still die Even under perfect skies Even held with careful hands Even loved with open eyes Beautiful things still die And that doesn't make them less Some moments become holy Because they cannot be possessed We don't lose the meaning Just because we lose the form Beautiful things still die And something else is always born (Verse 2) I have watched a love grow quieter Without anger, without blame Two people standing close together Yet no longer quite the same I have watched a dream dissolve That once had carried all my hope Felt the future disappear And had to learn a different road There are endings without villains There are goodbyes without deceit Sometimes life simply moves the river Where two currents cease to meet And maturity is learning Not to force what wants to leave Not every loss demands a battle Not every absence needs belief (Pre-Chorus) The hand that closes around beauty Often crushes what it holds Love can honour what is changing Without demanding it grow old (Chorus) Beautiful things still die Even under perfect skies Even held with careful hands Even loved with open eyes Beautiful things still die And that doesn't make them less Some moments become holy Because they cannot be possessed We don't lose the meaning Just because we lose the form Beautiful things still die And something else is always born (Verse 3) The body teaches this in silence Every year redraws the face Every scar becomes a calendar Every wrinkle marks a place We spend fortunes fighting endings As if time could be restrained But mortality gives colour To the hours that still remain If the rose could bloom forever Would we stop to smell it now? If every night became eternal Would the dawn still make us bow? Maybe death does not insult life Maybe death defines its edge Maybe knowing things are finite Is what makes us fully present (Bridge) Do not freeze the river Because you loved one stretch of shore Do not curse the autumn Because summer is no more Do not turn a memory Into evidence of wrong Some things finish beautifully Without needing to belong There is wisdom in releasing There is dignity in grief There are endings that become The deepest form of peace (Breakdown) Look at the flower Don't ask it to stay See how the colour Changes with the day Touch what is living While it is near Love without possession And loss without fear (Verse 4) I began to count my blessings Without turning them to chains Let a moment be a moment Let the sunlight leave the pane I stopped asking every person To remain who they had been Stopped demanding from tomorrow What belonged to yesterday There is freedom in admitting I cannot keep the world unchanged And there is strength in meeting What arrives when life rearranges Now when beauty enters softly I don't ask how long it lasts I give myself completely Without bargaining with the past (Final Chorus) Beautiful things still die But they do not disappear They become the way we soften They become the way we hear Beautiful things still die And the heart survives the cost Not by pretending nothing mattered But by learning how to lose We don't own the seasons We don't own another soul Beautiful things still die And still they make us whole (Outro) The flower is gone The fragrance remains The person has left The love has changed The moment has ended The lesson stays Nothing beautiful was wasted Just because It couldn't stay