Bright Blue Rose

I skimmed across black water

without once submerging

onto the banks of an urban 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 emerges unlearned, unshamed, unharmed.

For she is the perfect creature

a natural in every feature,

and I am the geek with the alchemist's 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 so it goes

To ponder his death

and his life eternally.