The Rose and the Thorn Songtext
von 13th Floor Elevators

The angels smile on a brand new angel′s face.
It won't change, it won′t change.
You're here to stay until your last living breath is complete.
It' won′t change, it won′t change.

Here she comes, my love,
With the earth beneath her feet my love she comes
She cares. I do not ask her why she cares, she cares.


And these things are not untold
Within her eyes, spoken through her soul.
The dawn of truth will rise!

Liberty will find us, grown old and aging stone.
The canon shouts and is firing,
The unknown soldier will come home.

A union of remaining wicked words then can only fall.
A single trumpet playing blaming the rose and and thorn
The rise and the fall