The Rose (feat. Bette Midler)

Some say love, it is a river That drowns the tender reed Some say love, it is a razor That leaves your soul to bleed And some say love, it is a hunger An endless aching need I say love, oh love, it is a flower And you, you are its only seed It's the heart afraid of breaking That never learns to dance And it's the dream afraid of awaking That never, never takes the chance And it's the one who won't be taken Who cannot seem to give And the soul, the soul afraid of dying That never, never learns to live When the night has been too lonely And the road has been too long And you think that love is only Only for the lucky and the strong You remember in the winter Far beneath the bitter snows Lies the seed that with the sun's love In the spring becomes the rose