Something jewlled slips away   Round the next bend with a splash   Laughing at the hands I hold out   Only air with-in their grasp   All you can do is praise the razor   For the fineness of the slash till   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 hill drop where the road   Forever becomes one with the sky till   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 meanings come to be   I see the rose above the sky    Open   And the light behind the sun    Take all   The rose above the sky    Opens   And the light behind the    Takes all