Holding Roses
Copyright 2007 Mason Reed (ASCAP)

As if I’m not smart enough
To see right through you when you smile like that
Baby rail me up a heart attack
I’m not looking back
I went to bat for you, even though I knew we’d lose

As if I’m not strong enough
As if I knew you’d break me so I could get stronger
As if you’re the first to break me

I’m not digging up anything underground
It’s no secret family hand-me-down
When the devil comes around
Everybody knows this
I’m not digging up anything underground
No hidden family hand-me-down
When the devil comes around
Ain’t he always holding roses?

As if I’m not living up
Your expectations swallowed by the mouth of the monster
and the monster’s drinking up
You never expected what followed

I’m not digging up anything underground
It’s no secret family hand-me-down
When the devil comes around
Everybody knows this
I’m not digging up anything underground
No hidden family hand-me-down
When the devil comes around
Ain’t he always holding roses?

Don’t you know that your friends don’t change?
We’re kindred souls. hell we’re all the same
You might keep my love like the good stuff
Pushed back and dusty on the top shelf
Dig up all my demons find me lost in myself
I get lost in myself sometimes

I might follow you down all the uglier roads in hell
But fifty thousand years from now we’re all sound waves ourselves

I’m not digging up anything underground
It’s no secret family hand-me-down
When the devil comes around
Everybody knows this
I’m not digging up anything underground
No hidden family hand-me-down
When the devil comes around
Ain’t he always holding roses?