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