{"id":56208,"date":"2026-10-20T12:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/?p=56208"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:28:55","slug":"rare-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/10\/20\/rare-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nIn a garden out of time<br \/>\nWhere the stars and shadows rhyme<br \/>\nSomething whispers through the leaves<br \/>\nOf the things that no one sees<\/p>\n<p>Petals dark as velvet skies<br \/>\nHold the secrets of our lives<br \/>\nThorn&#8217;s tip a question posed<br \/>\n&#8230; the answer half-disclosed<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nIs it magic? Is it fate?<br \/>\nIs it something we create?<br \/>\nWhen the midnight breezes blow<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a truth we almost know<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nA mystic flower<br \/>\n(Of strange power)<br \/>\n&#8230; a rare rose<\/p>\n<p>In the throes<br \/>\n(Of &#8220;who knows?)<\/p>\n<p>Spirits arose<br \/>\n(In our hour)<br \/>\nOf freewill<br \/>\n(Freed will&#8230; until&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nSilver moonlight on the ground<br \/>\nAncient voices all around<br \/>\nEach petal seems to hold<br \/>\nA forgotten story told<\/p>\n<p>Was it planted long ago?<br \/>\nDoes it bloom where wild winds blow?<br \/>\nDoes it choose the hearts it knows?<br \/>\nWho can say where magic grows?<\/p>\n<p>[Pre-Chorus]<br \/>\nIs it heaven? Is it hell?<br \/>\nOnly time will ever tell<br \/>\nWhen the fragile petals close<br \/>\nWhat becomes of the rare rose?<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nA mystic flower<br \/>\n(Of strange power)<br \/>\n&#8230; a rare rose<\/p>\n<p>In the throes<br \/>\n(Of &#8220;who knows?)<\/p>\n<p>Spirits arose<br \/>\n(In our hour)<br \/>\nOf freewill<br \/>\n(Freed will&#8230; until&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nFree to wander, free to choose<br \/>\nFree to win and free to lose<br \/>\nOn the road that we embrace<br \/>\nLeaves its mark upon this place<\/p>\n<p>But the freedom that we claim<br \/>\nCan become another chain<br \/>\nWill we bloom or will we close?<br \/>\nWho decides the fate of the rose?<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nA mystic flower<br \/>\n(Of strange power)<br \/>\n&#8230; a rare rose<\/p>\n<p>In the throes<br \/>\n(Of &#8220;who knows?)<\/p>\n<p>Spirits arose<br \/>\n(In our hour)<br \/>\nOf freewill<br \/>\n(Freed will&#8230; until&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>[Final Chorus]<br \/>\nA mystic flower<br \/>\n(Of strange power)<br \/>\n&#8230; a rare rose<\/p>\n<p>As darkness grows<br \/>\n(The question flows)<br \/>\n&#8230; a rare rose<\/p>\n<p>Spirits arose<br \/>\n(In our hour)<br \/>\nOf freewill<br \/>\n(Freed will&#8230; until&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>A mystic flower<br \/>\n(What will it show?)<br \/>\nA choice, a power<br \/>\n(Which way will we go?)<\/p>\n<p>In the throes<br \/>\n(Of &#8220;who knows?&#8221;)<br \/>\n&#8230; a rare rose<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nPetal by petal<br \/>\n(The mystery grows)<br \/>\nWhispering softly<br \/>\n(What nobody knows)<\/p>\n<p>Freewill&#8230;<br \/>\n(Freed will&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Until&#8230;<br \/>\n(Until&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>The garden sleeps<br \/>\nThe midnight blows<br \/>\nAnd somewhere in the shadows&#8230;<br \/>\nBlooms the rare rose.<\/p>\n<p>From the album <strong>&#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Vista\/\">Vista<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Verse 1] In a garden out of time Where the stars and shadows rhyme Something whispers through the leaves Of the things that no one sees Petals dark as velvet skies Hold the secrets of our lives Thorn&#8217;s tip a question posed &#8230; the answer half-disclosed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56219,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56208\/revisions\/56219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}