The Rose Lyrics - Janis Joplin

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 the chance 

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It's the one who won't be taken 

Who cannot seem to give 

And the soul afraid of dyin' 

That 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 

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Just remember, in the winter 

Far beneath the bitter snows 

Lie the seed, that with the sun's love 

In the spring, becomes the rose