**[Verse 1]** She still had ribbons in her drawer A dress she'd almost outgrown A window full of morning birds A world she'd barely known The ink was drying on her name The pages still were clean She wasn't meant to be a legend She was only fourteen **[Pre-Chorus]** They carved her into marble Before she'd learned to dance with time **[Chorus]** Oh, Juliet... You should've seen the autumn leaves Should've learned which dreams survive And which ones gently leave You should've had a thousand mornings Instead of just one night The world remembers how you died... I wonder who you'd be alive **[Verse 2]** They speak of love in whispered tones As if that's all you knew But maybe you loved rainy days Or hated wearing blue Maybe you'd have cut your hair Maybe you'd have crossed the sea Maybe there were versions of yourself The world will never see **[Pre-Chorus]** History loves endings Life was still beginning **[Chorus]** Oh, Juliet... Your laughter stopped before it changed Your voice stayed young forever While the centuries grew strange The poets found eternity The girl was left behind The story got its perfect end... You never got your life **[Bridge]** They'll lay roses on your balcony Quote your name beneath the stars But no one mourns the birthdays That never filled your heart No silver in your hair No wrinkles from your smile No quiet porch at eighty Watching grandchildren run wild No ordinary Tuesday No arguments to mend No chance to wake beside the dawn And simply grow old instead **[Final Chorus]** Oh, Juliet... The stage went dark too soon for you The curtain fell on childhood Before adulthood broke through The world still calls it perfect love As audiences sigh But every time they tell your tale... I grieve the life denied **[Outro]** Fourteen springs. One borrowed summer. A thousand years of flowers... For a girl who never got another.
