Songs

The Rose

words and music by Amanda McBroom

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.

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,

who cannot seem to give.

And the soul afraid of dying,

who 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

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.