Bright Blue Rose

Bright Blue Rose

(Jimmy McCarthy)

I skimmed across black water

Without once submerging

Onto the banks of an urban morning

That hungers the first light

Much, much more than mountains ever do

And she, like a ghost beside me

Goes down with the ease of a dolphin

And emerges unlearned, unshamed, unharmed

For she is the perfect creature, natural in every feature

And I am the geek with the alchemists' stone

Chorus:

For all of you who must discover

For all who seek to understand

For having left the path of others

You'll find a very special hand

And it is a holy thing

And it is a precious time

And it is the only way

Forget-me-nots among the snow

It's always been, and so it goes

To ponder his death and his life eternally

(Chorus)

And it is a holy thing

And it is a precious time

And it is the only 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 outlives all those

Two thousand years, and still it goes

To ponder his death and his life eternally