| Song | Naming the Rose |
| Artist | Peter Hammill |
| Album | None of the Above |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| 作词 : Hammill | |
| He had worked on this for years | |
| since they know they'd be childless: | |
| to hybridise a thornless | |
| and deep-scented damask rose. | |
| She was always by his side | |
| in the lengthening shadows... | |
| this case is closed. | |
| Ena Harkness, Constance Spry, | |
| Emily Grey, Margaret Merrill, | |
| Zepherine Drouhin, Aimee Vibert and Blanche Moreau – | |
| all these spirits still survive in the act of the grower | |
| (in peace and compassion he's...) | |
| naming the rose, | |
| naming the rose in the memory of sweetness. | |
| Dedication to the call | |
| and he offers up the hope | |
| that love conquers all. | |
| It's not easy to explain | |
| how he felt at her passing | |
| the very day on which | |
| the most perfect bloom was full-blown; | |
| tender cruelty that she'd | |
| never share in this moment, | |
| naming the rose. | |
| He takes her ashes to the seed-bed | |
| and works them in gently | |
| so that her soul will rise like sap | |
| in the plants as they grow | |
| and then whispering her name | |
| writes it out on the label, | |
| naming the rose, | |
| naming the rose | |
| for the sake of her sweetness. | |
| Naming the rose | |
| in the memory of sweetness. |
| zuo ci : Hammill | |
| He had worked on this for years | |
| since they know they' d be childless: | |
| to hybridise a thornless | |
| and deepscented damask rose. | |
| She was always by his side | |
| in the lengthening shadows... | |
| this case is closed. | |
| Ena Harkness, Constance Spry, | |
| Emily Grey, Margaret Merrill, | |
| Zepherine Drouhin, Aimee Vibert and Blanche Moreau | |
| all these spirits still survive in the act of the grower | |
| in peace and compassion he' s... | |
| naming the rose, | |
| naming the rose in the memory of sweetness. | |
| Dedication to the call | |
| and he offers up the hope | |
| that love conquers all. | |
| It' s not easy to explain | |
| how he felt at her passing | |
| the very day on which | |
| the most perfect bloom was fullblown | |
| tender cruelty that she' d | |
| never share in this moment, | |
| naming the rose. | |
| He takes her ashes to the seedbed | |
| and works them in gently | |
| so that her soul will rise like sap | |
| in the plants as they grow | |
| and then whispering her name | |
| writes it out on the label, | |
| naming the rose, | |
| naming the rose | |
| for the sake of her sweetness. | |
| Naming the rose | |
| in the memory of sweetness. |
| zuò cí : Hammill | |
| He had worked on this for years | |
| since they know they' d be childless: | |
| to hybridise a thornless | |
| and deepscented damask rose. | |
| She was always by his side | |
| in the lengthening shadows... | |
| this case is closed. | |
| Ena Harkness, Constance Spry, | |
| Emily Grey, Margaret Merrill, | |
| Zepherine Drouhin, Aimee Vibert and Blanche Moreau | |
| all these spirits still survive in the act of the grower | |
| in peace and compassion he' s... | |
| naming the rose, | |
| naming the rose in the memory of sweetness. | |
| Dedication to the call | |
| and he offers up the hope | |
| that love conquers all. | |
| It' s not easy to explain | |
| how he felt at her passing | |
| the very day on which | |
| the most perfect bloom was fullblown | |
| tender cruelty that she' d | |
| never share in this moment, | |
| naming the rose. | |
| He takes her ashes to the seedbed | |
| and works them in gently | |
| so that her soul will rise like sap | |
| in the plants as they grow | |
| and then whispering her name | |
| writes it out on the label, | |
| naming the rose, | |
| naming the rose | |
| for the sake of her sweetness. | |
| Naming the rose | |
| in the memory of sweetness. |