Briar Rose - Aoife O'Donovan

Rose.

Briar Rose

Why you look so sad and all alone

Did you prick your thumb did you skin your knee

Running down the stairs looking for me

Everything’s on fire and everyone’s asleep

And they’re burning wheels at the king’s feet

You, where’d you go.

Who you running from

Everyone loves a sleeping beauty

On the stage or on the screen

So you take it like a man, do what you can, while you can.

Try not to scream

Your daddy he came upstairs to tuck you in

Why’d you look so scared?

Where’s the queen, your mother dear

She’s in the next room over, finger in her ears

She doesn’t want to hear, she thinks you’re a liar

So you light a match, and you cast your spell, and you start the fire

Then you try to run but you don’t get far

You’re gonna lie for a century, dreaming in the dark

Everyone loves a sleeping beauty

On the stage or on the screen

So you take it like a man, do what you can, while you can.

Try not to scream

Someday I’ll come looking for ya

Through the roses and the thorns

I’ll come crawling through it all

It might take a hundred but I’ll be here when the smoke clears

To tear down the wall

Everyone loves a sleeping beauty

The northern lights are out tonight

Aurora can you hear me?

I know you’re weary

Open up your eyes.

You’ll be alright.