Debra Cowan - The Rose You Wore For Me (Danny Carnahan) lyrics

When I open my eyes I can see you still With the sunlight so gay Glinting on the quay All bu*tons and bows And the bloom of the rose You wore for me Oh I swore I'd return As a prince someday With a ship full of gold For the world to see Yes I promised you then Though I couldn't say when That day would be Chorus: And long are the days Since we lay in the fields so green And long are the nights To consider what might have been And the song of the geese in the wind Will call your name Oh the mountains just laugh When I turn for home Not a mountain so high Nor a man so small Is it hours to the shore Or ten thousand miles more Beyond recall ‘Twas a fool to believe All the things they said Twice a fool just to kiss you And sail away But they lied when they told Of those rivers of gold in America If a word or a wish could Transport me now I would fly to your arms Like a moth to flame But I'm chained and I'm bound To this cold foreign ground With none to blame Does my love warm your heart Through the cold, cold night? Does it twine ‘round your heart As the roses grown Or does love burn away Leaving ashes so grey And cold as stone?