For My Mum. . .Always THE ROSE

Some say love it is a river 
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razor 
That leaves the heart to bleed

Some say love it is a hunger
An endless aching need
I say love it is a flower
And you it's only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
That never takes a chance

It's the one who won't be taken
That can not seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying
That can not seem to live

When the night has been to lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong

Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In The Spring becomes the rose

~~THE ROSE, written by Amanda McBroom
Performed by Bette Midler