Name: Roses & Thunder
Duration: P00H02M45S
Description: Sometimes metaphor holds more truth than fact ever can. Recording this song was pure odyssey – Toronto – Nashville – Frankfurt – Nashville – where we found its groove…

Roses & Thunder

from Rising Tide by Taivi

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Sometimes metaphor holds more truth than fact ever can. Recording this song was pure odyssey – Toronto – Nashville – Frankfurt – Nashville – where we found its groove…

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I was a young innocent by the side of the road
Big trucks rolling by, you stopped the wheels of your rig
Long enough to say, “Hop on board – let’s ride”

I heard rifles shoot out from the woods up ahead
Magazines let loose, “It’s an ambush!” you screamed
I said, “I’ve got your back; I’ve got you covered, it’s alright”

And it was roses and thunder down at roadkill junction
What was a poor girl to do
Playing it cool, taking bullets for you

So I grabbed the wheel, barrelled down the blacktop
My foot hard on the gas, eyes fixin’ ahead
Not knowing where to, just getting us, out of there

I came into this mission wearing holy cloaks
I heard your cry for protection, the air stank of danger
With fierce trepidation, I was going for higher ground

And it’s been ten long years on that road
I’m finally finding my way back home

And it was roses and thunder, yeah
Roses and thunder, hmmmnn
Roses and thunder, that’s how I remember you
That’s how I remember you

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from Rising Tide, released November 10, 2017

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Taivi Toronto, Ontario

Singer-Songwriter from Toronto, Ontario.

“I bet they’d pay you to come sing” - Pete Seeger.

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