The Rose And The Thistle - Flobots

The rose and the thistle, well they both have thorns

They both have thorns, they both have thorns

The rose and the thistle, well they both have thorns

And they grow in the garden where your love was born

The rose and the thistle, well they both have thorns

They both have thorns, they both have thorns

The rose and the thistle, well they both have thorns

And they grow in the garden where your love was born

I’m between a rock and a hard place

Your thought and your heart’s space

Meant no for nothing, like a pick in an empty guitar case

Follow you like a car chase

To the part where we stargaze the plot in your garden

I see your world view like Marvin the Martian

Your part of the solution’s, my part of the problem

If you stop to smell the roses I know we can solve them

As the world keeps revolving, let’s keep on evolving

A natural selection like Wallace and Darwin

Grow grey like Steve Martin, in old age be radiocarbon

Getting to half our lives together, when the great part gets started

To keep it short I’m glad you were born, let’s keep flowing together through

thistle and thorn

The Rose and the thistle, they both have thorns

Took note of this when I woke this morn'

Sun rise came in as one bright ray and the place on the wall where it shone was

warm

And the shadow cast was like a battleaxe so I grabbed it fast and I smashed the

glass

And I crawled through the shards and I found myself in a beautiful garden

With petals, bulbs, nettles, mulch, hibiscus, delphinidins, ferns,

christmas bells, geraniums

Jack in the pulpit, baby’s breath, lily of the Nile, a star of Bethlehem

A brilliant child being poked at and scorned, the rose and the thistle they

both have thorns

Hey Mary, begging your pardon, what pretty flowers grow in your garden?

Let’s lie back, in the lilacs, meander in the lavender

Get silly in the lilies, dancing under oleanders

Holy moly holding hands, snap dragon tantrums

And open up the irises, humming summer anthems

He loves me not will forget me not, looking for the answers

He loves me not will forget me not, looking for the answers