Bruce Cockburn The Rose Above The Sky Lyrics

The Rose Above The Sky Lyrics

Something jewelled slips away

Round the next bend with a splash

Laughing at the hands I hold out

Only air within their grasp

All
you can do is praise the razor

For the fineness of the slash 



'Til the Rose above the sky

Opens

And the light behind the
sun

Takes all 



Gutless arrogance and rage

Burn apart
the best of tries

You carry the weight of inherited sorrow

From
your first day till you die

Toward that hilltop where the road

Forever becomes one with the sky 



'Til the Rose above the
sky

Opens

And the light behind the sun

Takes all 



Ozone on the midnight wind

Got me thinking of the sea

And the
mercies of the currents that brought

Me to you and you to me

And in
the silence at the heart of things

Where all true meetings come to be 



'Til the Rose above the sky

Opens

And the light behind
the sun

Takes all