This is the compliment song to Heather Alexander's "Flesh Against the Thorn" on the Midsummer album. It is the Beast's answer to Beauty's perspective pointing out that what is seen on the outside, does not always match what is on the inside.
AJ Adams: Vocal, Guitar, Fiddle
Heather Alexander: Vocal
Betsy Tinney: Cello
Fox Amoore: Piano, Keyboard Voices, and Percussion
Lyrics
The Blue Rose Rare - Alexander James Adams
In the beginning, I feared to let live,
All the deep, open feelings that love can truly give-
Guarded with darkness, my heart would not show,
All of the passion that only I know-
"The Blue Rose Rare, one cannot gain,
If glove or guard be worn,
'Tis only when one risks the pain
Of Flesh Against the Thorn"
I was transformed in some monsterly ways,
To be mirroring actions of how I spent those days-
Cursed and painful, my image to see,
I was that way on the day you found me-
THE BLUE ROSE RARE, IS PRECIOUS IN PART-
IT IS THE THORN IN THE STRENGTH OF MY HEART-
I tried to keep you, but you would not stay,
In the world I created and so you went away-
Trust had been shattered and love had been torn,
You turned against me with undeserved scorn-
(Chorus)
Still I hung onto the one thing I knew,
Which was how to stay strong with the love that I now grew-
And though it may hurt me to love once again,
I will be stronger than you could be then-
(Chorus with Counter Chorus)
(Chorus)
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