My Heart Is Not a Rose

from Sleeping With The Devil by Jeremy Joyce

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lyrics

These words may never reach you, for it's to the sky I speak
To the trees blowing in the winter wind from atop a jagged peak

Do you remember the night I saw you in another's arms
He had a look like a child, who’d been been caught doing wrong

But no tears fell, no guilt showed on your face
A love that's lost is a cross to bear, but a love that’s a lie is a waste.

[Chorus]
My heart is not a rose, growing to the sky
My heart is not a brier green nor a twisted vine
My heart is the flesh, scattered on the mountain side
It's the red rock down below and the blood in feasting eyes

I touch my chest, my heart is pounding. I touch my brow, it’s soaked with sweat.
I hear a voice sounding, I close my eyes and see you yet.

Oh Lord I am forsaken, and I know not if it sin
But I hear the darkness calling in the blowing of the wind

And through the wolf's howl in the valley down below
The Flesh of the forsaken man is sweeter I suppose

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from Sleeping With The Devil, released April 16, 2013

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Jeremy Joyce New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans couldn’t offer a more appropriate musical backdrop for Jeremy Joyce, whose genre-defying songs are born out of Jeremy’s macro-level interest in music history and his micro-level interest in what makes songs tick.