Tom Waits — The Briar and the Rose

I fell asleep down by the stream And there I had the strangest dream And down by Brennan's Glenn there grows A briar and a rose There's a tree in a forest, I don't know where I built a nest out of your hair And climbing up into the air A briar and a rose I don't know how long it has been But I was born in Brennan's Glenn And near the end of spring there grows A briar and a rose I picked the rose one early morn I pricked my finger on a thorn They'd grown so close, their winding wove The briar around the rose I tried to tear them both apart I felt a bullet in my heart All dressed up in spring's new clothes The briar and the rose And when I'm buried in my grave Tell me so I will know Your tears will fall to make love grow The briar and the rose When I'm buried in my grave Tell me so I will know Your tears will fall to make them grow The briar and the rose Your tears will fall to make them grow The briar and the rose