Bette Midler – The Rose

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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 leaves     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,     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 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     becomes the rose

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