About
The Author
Meet Anthony Mascarenhas, the family man who has stories for days! When he’s not fishing, you can find him doing what he does best – jotting down his latest tale. The website was named after a song, Roses in the Sea, which he heard in his youth group in Pune, India.
Roses in the Sea
Lyrics: Fr Cyril Desbruslais, sj, Pune, Music: Fr Terrence Quadros, sj, Mumbai
I’m looking for roses
Roses in the sea
Just for an honest chance to live
An honest chance to be free
I’m searching the wide world over
For life, for liberty
It’s much easier to find
Roses in the sea
Sprawled on a bloody battlefield
A soldier twists in the slime
Half his face has been blasted away
He’s fallen for the last time
Far away people are waiting
For Jimmy to come back to them
Poor people they are waiting in vain
They won’t see their Jim again
I’m looking for roses
Roses in the sea
Just for an honest chance to live
An honest chance to be free
I’m searching the wide world over
For life, for liberty
It’s much easier to find
Roses in the sea
My searching isn’t over
In fact, it’s just begun
In these few years that are left to me
There’s plenty to be done
And on that day I close my eyes
Perhaps I then shall see
Those roses that I dreamt about
Those roses meant for me.
I’m looking for roses
Roses in the sea
Just for an honest chance to live
An honest chance to be free
I’m searching the wide world over
For life, for liberty
It’s much easier to find
Roses in the sea