;Bright Blue Rose
;Jimmy MacCarthy


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 I skimmed across black water
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 Without once submerging
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 Onto the banks of an urban morning
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 That hungers the first light,
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 Much much more than the
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 Mountains ever do.
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 And she like a ghost beside me
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 Goes down with the ease of a dolphin
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 And emerges unlearned, unshamed, unharmed
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 For she is perfect creature
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 Natural in every feature
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 And I am the geek with the alchemist’s stone.


[chorus]
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 For all of you who must discover,
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 For all who seek to understand,
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 For having left the path of others
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 You'll find a very special hand.



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 And it is a holy thing, and
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 It is a precious time
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 And it is the only way
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 Forget-me-nots among the snow,
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 It's always been and so it goes
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 To ponder his death and his life eternally


[repeat chorus]


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 And it is a holy thing, and
.G
 It is a precious time
.D                   A
 And it is the only way
.D
 Forget-me-nots among the snow,
.G
 It's always been and so it goes
.D             Bm            A            D
 To ponder his death and his life eternally
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 One bright blue rose outlives all those
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 Two thousand years and still it goes
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 To ponder his death and his life eternally