The Rose

VERSE 1

A thousand things I can’t accomplish        

A million things I don’t know what to do.

The books or the bank or the candlestick maker--

Can all of these things just wait for you?

Cuz I’ve tried not to fail

At such simple and daily tasks.

But don’t even mention the job I don’t have.

CHORUS

There’s the rose, just taking it in.

There the snow blows as white as it’s ever been.

There a bird flies while I cry about what might be.

There the rose goes. May I be as peaceful as he.

VERSE 2

A thousand things I can’t accomplish        

A million things I don’t know what to do.

An oil change, a new face. I'm still out of toothpaste.

Can all of these things just wait for you?

I’m unbound but not free

From aims that sustain me.

I’m booked but the nights on which I’d like to be.

CHORUS

BRIDGE

Sometimes I’m overwhelmed by worry.

Sometimes—like now—it comes and paralyzes.

Sometimes—all the time—I still come out on top.

Sometimes—like right now—I need stop.

There’s the rose, just taking it in.

There the snow blows as white as it’s ever been.

CHORUS

There the rose goes, he don’t know who’s caring for him.

There the snow blows as white as it’s ever been.

There a bird flies while I cry about what might be.

There the rose goes, may I be as peaceful as he.