The Rose
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by Amanda McBroom           Arr:  RUS/EM 1/8/98


Intro:  D


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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 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 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 far beneath the bitter snows

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Lies the seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose