BRIGHT BLUE ROSE

(Jimmy McCarthy)

I skimmed across black water,

Without once submerging,

Onto the banks of another morning.

That hungers the first light,

Much, much more than

The mountains ever do.

And she like a ghost beside me

Goes down with the ease of a dolphin

And awakens unlearned, unshamed, unharmed.

For she is the perfect creature,

Natural in every feature.

I am the geek with the alchemist stone.

Chorus

For all of you who must discover,

For all who seek to understand,

For having left the path of honour

To find a very special land.

And it is a holy thing,

And it is a precious time,

And it is the o_n_ly way.

Forget-me-nots among the snow

It's always been and so it goes

To ponder his death and his life eternally.

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(Chorus)

And it is a holy thing,

And it is a precious time,

And it is the o_nl_y way.

Forget-me-nots among the snow

It's always been and so it goes

To ponder his death and his life eternally.

One bright blue rose, who lives are those,

Two thousand years and so it goes.

To ponder his death and his life eternally.