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lyrics please for flower of the briar?

Update:

wow - that is pretty powerful stuff! but not the song by Robin Williamson which is the one I am after. Thanks -

Update 2:

words & music by Robin Williamon

c 1979, '80 Robin Williamson

Update 3:

thanks Sarah !

to the heart of the thunder,

the heart of my sorow

flower of the Briar

come storm sea and gales

out-howl all these words of me

flower of the Briar

and my tears and salt sea spray

flower of the Briar

where the grey gulls and the while gulls

fall wing torn and wounded

at the teeth of the rain

where the grey waves and the white waves

bitter as the grave's edge

bewail the sea's rage

the world and its pain

that this tide should cleave us

but a little while

come shipwreck, come shelter,

come flower of the morning

flower of the Briar

where gates that are broken

and gold as September

flower of the briar

leave old roads their winding

flower of the Briar

from farthings and flinders

and days locked in doggerel

or smoored in bland stone

let love learned from jurymen

marksmen and traitors

cough away behind hand

in the hovel of bone

that this road should bind us

but a little while

I wish I could see by the light moon

and dark moon

flower of the Briar

beyond the whore's

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I couldn't find anything by that name, but the closest I could come is "The Rose and the Briar"

    The Rose and the Briar

    (Alan Taylor)

    Beware the dream that turns to greed

    When the flower rejects the seed

    When the lover does not yearn

    For the swallow's swift return

    Too late the lesson has been learned

    The flowers withered the letters burned

    The fond embrace is just a breeze

    Like the touch of falling leaves

    Chorus

    Take this broken heart of mine

    Throw it out like sour wine

    Let it burn upon the fire

    For you're the rose and I'm the briar

    And now the years are rolling on

    And I think of what is gone

    For what I gained I do not care

    And what I lost I hold most dear

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