feeding the flowers (acapella)

We hold on to the things that are dead We must learn to let go Though the pain grows Like the flowers pushing through me Trying to reach your sun Some are pretty and Some are thorny though They vary they really hurt me 'Cause they don't see what I see They don't feel what I feel When my chest rips and tears Every time I take in the sweet air I'm feeding the flowers But they're slowly killing me When my chest rips and tears Every time I take in the sweet air I'm feeding the flowers Though our love will never be I wake up at the break of dawn And I know that you're not there It's hard to go about life Pretending that I don't care But I'm in pain The flowers are blooming again The amount of rain Gushing through my veins It doesn't feel okay Doesn't feel okay When my chest rips and tears Every time I take in the sweet air I'm feeding the flowers But they're slowly killing me When my chest rips and tears Every time I take in the sweet air I'm feeding the flowers Though our love will never be So lend me your stems and Lend me your thorns I, (I), I could not love you more So lend me your stems and Lend me your thorns In the garden I could not love you more When my chest rips and tears Every time I take in the sweet air I'm feeding the flowers But they're slowly killing me When my chest rips and tears Every time I take in the sweet air I'm feeding the flowers Though our love will never be (When my chest rips and tears) Every time I take in the sweet air I'm feeding the flowers But they're slowly killing me When my chest rips and tears Every time I take in the sweet air I'm feeding the flowers Though our love will never