| Mary Black – Bright Blue Rose Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Form an interview with Jimmy McCarthy in the Irish Independent newspaper, Nov. 26, 2000. Many of his songs are saturated with spiritual sentiments which would not be out of place on a gospel album. Take the chorus of The Song of the Singing Horseman: "I want you, I want you/ In my life, my Lord/ I want you in my heart/ And on my word, my Lord/ I'd love you/ I'd love you/ In my life my Lord/ The child within my heart/ And on my word, my law." Bright Blue Rose is an invocation of spiritual perfection through Christ. It's where the narrator MacCarthy describes himself as "the geek with the alchemist's stone", a strikingly bleak portrait. He sees it as an attitude of humility. "Well, the geek is one of the lowest forms of humanity. The There's nothing grandiose about being a geek. You are preaching to no one when you put yourself there. So basically I put myself above no one else." |
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