Wild Rose (feat. Esperanza Spalding)

Listen to the wild rose in bloom

In her tune, strength and beauty

Grow with the days unfolding

Each layer of her perfume

I want to move that free and full

Like the wild rose

Like the wild rose

I'd been growing happy

In the gardens

'Neath the open sun

Each of my finest roses

Trimmed and bunches into a vase

Lovers and florists

Flocked to buy and sell

Rabbits in my breath

Till pedals started falling

From my pretty little face

Big time cultivators came to counsel me

With bouquets and tips

About how successful plots

Need some controls if they're to grow

Promising next year

If I pruned my branches and locked my hips

I'd have more roses and more hands

To help me reap and sow

While they were talking 'round me

A wild breeze wafted by

And wrapped it's song around me

Before I crossed their dotted line

I listened

To the wild rose in bloom

In her tune, strength and beauty

Opened my heart unfolding

Each layer of her perfume

And I knew I could bloom that full

Like the wild rose

A wild will to grow took me over

And out grew my roots and seed

The florist scattered

Songs grew out of my thorns and leaves

Never knew they mattered

They matter

To grow myself in full

And show out loud

That more than pretty roses

Of me I'm proud

To be that free and full

Like the wild rose

In my tune, strength and beauty

Growing for days unfolding

I've been growing happy

In my fullness, stretching in the sun

Each of my roses blooming out

And singing their own song

Now people passing through the gardens

Like to stop and hear

Some even open up and start to sing along

For every rose still longing

For a new breeze to come by

Listen for the wild rose

As she sings her song on high

Just listen

To the wild rose in bloom

In her tune, strength and beauty

Grow with the days unfolding

Each layer of her perfume

I want to bloom that free and full

Call me wild rose

Call me wild rose

Oh, listen