Bright Blue Rose
Jimmy MacCarthy


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


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



D   
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


[repeat chorus]


D   
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
D
One bright blue rose outlives all those
G
Two thousand years and still it goes
   D          Bm            A            D
To ponder his death and his life eternally