Sabre And The Rose Songtext / Lyric

Feet hit the ground', feet leaving town

Quicker than a bullet or a knife

Falling ain't no fun, when you're on the run

Honey we was runnin' for our life



When Stagger Lee had drunk his fill of moonlight

He turned his burnin' eyes upon my soul

"It's time, by God, to spend this night with someone else", he said

"Squeeze a little pleasure from the gold, love and glory"

But we can take it easy when we're old



He said, "We'll take us into town, lay our money down

I'll bring you to the sweetest thing that grows

Because the fairest ones in sight, are bloomin' every night

At a tavern called the Sabre and the Rose"



We swang into the saddle slick as breathing

And slapped 'em once for pleasure with the reins

The horses snorted frosty in the moonlight

Somethin' dark was singing in my veins

Older than the voices in my brain






He said, "This place you're gonna see is where they live and breathe

And sink down a little bit deeper every day

And sometimes at night, when the wind is runnin' right

You can hear it suckin' thirty miles away"



Then the light was crimson

And I found her all naked and eternal and insane

Sacred as the mysteries around her

Like a veil nothin' but her prison was profane

All we had in common was our chains



Ah, burn it down boys, burn it to the ground

Boys, burn it on down



Feet hit the ground, feet leaving town

Quicker than a bullet or a knife

All the way she ran, holdin' to my hand

Runnin' for the river and our life



Slidin' from the moonlight into shadows, silent as the river as it flows

Swimmin' to the place they'll never find us

All we left behind us was our clothes and the stories

Children sing about the sabre and the rose