The Rose

Amanda McBroom / Bette Midler: The Rose (1980)

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Some say	love it is a	river that	drowns the ten	der	reed,

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Some say	love it is a	razor that	leeds your	soul to	bleed.

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Some say	love it is a	hunger an	endless aching	need,

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	I say	love it is a	flower and	you it's	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 but	never	takes the	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	think that love is	only for the	lucky	and the	strong.

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Just	remember in the	winter, far	beneath the bitter	snows,

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Lies the	seed that with the	sun's love in the	spring	bec	omes the	rose.