Kathy Mar Winter Rose Lyrics

Winter Rose Lyrics

Chorus:	 I am the rose



	 The rose



	 I am the rose



	 The rose with no flowers



	 I am the rose



	 The rose all thorns



	 The mind he made



	 The hand he touched



	 The winter rose







I who was blind and did not know



Who searched for sickness in the sane



Who tried to placate not to heal



Was taken sharply by his pain



He who gave me vivid roses



Grown inside his gentle mind



In his torment he discloses



Worlds I never wished to find







Chorus







I gave him lies for all his truth



And sent him to his spirit's death



And gave him hope when all was lost



And stole the flower that took my breath



He who gave a gift of flowers



Rests in quiet darkness now



Silent are his special powers



Blank his once-expressive brow







Chorus







I was a coward in his cause



His was the courage and the care



He who was hopeless learned to trust



I who could help him did not dare



All I did was let him founder



All-unknowing on the reef



Gave him a lie to make it easy



And stole his selfness like a thief







Chorus







I am an ashen desert land



I am a barren thorny stem



And as a coward cast my lot



With all the cowards known as "them"



All the cowards call me hero



All the heroes have been stilled



Still their vengeance sings the silence



Points to hungers left unfilled







Chorus















Words and music:Kathy Mar







Copyright 1984 Kathy Mar