The Rose

[Verse 1]

 

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Some say love, it is a river,

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That drowns the tender reed

                    C                   G

Some say love, it is a razor,

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That leaves your soul to bleed

                   Em             Am

Some say love, it is a hunger,

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An endless aching need

             C                 G

I say love, it is a flower and

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You its only seed

 

 

[Verse 2]

 

                   C                      G

It’s the heart afraid of breaking

             F   G                   C

That never learns to dance

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It’s the dream afraid of waking

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That never takes the chance

 

              Em                             Am     Am7

It’s the one who won’t be taken

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Who cannot seem to give

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And the soul afraid of dying

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That never learns to live

 

 

[Verse 3]

 

                      C                                 G

When the night has been too lonely

                     F G                        C

And the road has been too long

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And you think that love is only

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For the lucky and the strong

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Just remember in the winter

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Far beneath the bitter snow

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Lies the seed that with the sun’s love,

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In the spring becomes the rose

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