THE ROSE


Some say love, it is the river
that drowns the tender reed.
Some say love, it is the razor
that leaves your soul to bleed.
Some say love, it is a hunger
an aching endless need.
I say love, it is a flower
and you, it's only seed.
It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance.
It's the dream afraid of waking
that never takes a chance.
It's the one who wont be taken
who cannot seem to give,
and the soul afraid of dying
that never learns to live.
When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
in the spring...becomes the Rose.


sung by Bette Midler,
from the movie The Rose





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