The Rose

Bette Midler

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Some say love, it is a river, that drowns the tender reed
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Some say love, it is a razor, that leads your soul to bleed
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Some say love it is a hunger, and endless aching need
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I say love it is a flower and you its only seed

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance
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It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes a chance
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It's the one, who won't be taken who cannot seem to give
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And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live

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When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long
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And you find that love is only for the lucky and the strong
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Just remember in the winter for 'neath the bitter snow
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Lies the seed that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes the rose