[Verse 1] There’s a patch of wild blackberries growing by the creek, Where the summer sun turns everything to sweet. Some folks reach too quickly, never understand When briars catch their hands. Those thorns were there before anybody came, She was born that way. I see that vine whenever she’s near, How something can be beautiful with nothing to repair. [Pre-Chorus 1] I never thought her thorns were wrong, Or something love should overcome. The sweetest things I’ve ever known Were never meant for careless hands to hold. [Chorus] She’s wild blackberries, sweet upon the vine, A little bit of heaven that the world passes by. They cursed the thorns and left the fruit behind, But I knew a love like hers was worth the time. I wouldn’t cut a single briar down, Or ask her to lay her defenses on the ground. They wanted all her sweetness without the tangled vine, But I fell for every part of her, and I thank my lucky stars she’s mine. [Verse 2] She drinks blackberry wine out on the porch with me, Laughs until she’s breathless, lets her hair fall free. And I swear there’s nothing sweeter that these eyes have ever seen, Than a woman growing wild who knows she’s safe with me. I don’t ask the vine to lay its branches at my feet, Or mistake its way of growing for a warning meant for me. She doesn’t owe the world a softer way to stay alive, And I thank the earth for everything that keeps her growing wild. [Pre-Chorus 2] They only loved the parts they’d take, Then called the rest of her a mistake. But I see beauty they refused to find, In every thorn upon that blackberry vine. [Bridge] The creek don’t ask the water not to run, The sky don’t ask forgiveness from the sun. So why should she apologize for what the earth designed? I wouldn’t change a single thing about this love of mine. [Final Chorus] She’s wild blackberries, sweet upon the vine, A little bit of heaven that the world passes by. They cursed the thorns and left the fruit behind, But I knew a love like hers was worth the time. I wouldn’t cut a single briar down, Or ask her to lay her defenses on the ground. They wanted all her sweetness without the tangled vine, But I fell for every part of her, and I thank my lucky stars she’s mine.
