Lyrics The Five-Petaled Rose - Deborah Stokol

As the Raphael angel
Stood on my window ledge
Spoke my name
Said things don't just stay the same

So you have to fly out!
And you have to sing out!
As long as you stay the rose
That I know you to be
Know you to be

As he stood on the shore
Stood on the shore
Skipping stones
Across the sea
He saw her emerge from the waves
From a shell
And the foam

And he had to sing out!
He had to sing out!
And he to cry out!
He had to cry out!
My lady mine
You are
What I've waited for

And the storyteller's lantern sings out
With its flame
And the candle is bright in the darkest night
Memory's a kind of light

As the Raphael angel
Flew my way
On feathered wings
Says today's the day
You've been waiting for
For so long

You're the five-petaled rose
The five-petaled rose
Though nobody knows what you can do
But you
So do it
Today