The Rose
Don Williams
(Album: My Heart To You – 2004)

Intro: C

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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, and 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, 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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That 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 snow
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Lies the seed that with the sun's love, in the spring, becomes a rose.