The Once - The Briar and the Rose

I fell asleep down by a stream

And there I had the strangest dream

And down by Brennan's Glen there grows

A briar and a rose

There's a tree in a forest

And I don't know where

I built the nest out of your hair

And climbing up into the air

A briar and a rose

Well, I don't know how long it's been

But I was born in Brennan's Glen

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

It had grown so close, it's winding up

The briar 'round the rose

I tried to tear them both apart

I felt a bullet through my heart

And all dressed up in spring's new clothes

The briar and the rose

And when I'm buried and in my grave

Tell me, so I may know

Your tears may fall to make love grow

The briar and the rose

And when I'm buried and in my grave

Tell me, so I may know

Your tears may fall to make love grow

The briar and the rose