Bruce Cockburn - The Rose Above the Sky

I couldn't find this beautiful and enigmatic song _anywhere_ online... so here it is.
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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

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[gildengilly1]

There are two songs by Bruce that I have played repeatedly for decades now, and will continue to do so until my heart no longer beats: The Rose Above The Sky and No Footprints. Everytime I play them I weep, with yearning, with joy, with sadness. Words cannot express what his music has meant to me and so many others. Thank you, a million times thank you, s3nn5 for posting this masterpiece. And if you ever feel so inclined to post No Footprints I might have to owe you my life! Thanks again.

[dcrooks1960]

Sums up the human/divine crossroad so beautifully in a few succinct, almost Zen-like lines. As brilliant a musician ass Bruce Cockburn is, he is that much better a poet. This is a heartfelt, peircing rendition of one man's private march to Calvary.

[moorkeith]

This is one of the most moving, beautiful, haunting, complete songs about love and loss ever written..Bruce has always inspired me in a way no other music can..and this song is is the top 3. Which is saying a lot when there are so many.

[choppinsky]

thanks for putting this one up

[darcymaui]

so deeply moving........