An Occasional Rose Lyrics - All Around Cowboy/everything I've Always Wanted - Marty Robbins

It's so hard to fight a memory 

Only time can be a healer of the past 

And the thorns of love are many 

When they're clingin' to a love that didn't last 

Yesterday is over and his memory 

Will fade away with time 

So I'll accept a rose and just be patient 

Till all your love is mine 

I can take the thorns if there's 

Just an occasional rose 

I can bear the pain for a while 

Even though my heart knows 

You'll be thinkin' of him when 

We're makin' love, it always shows 

I can take the thorns if there's 

Just an occasional rose 

The road of love is rocky and 

Behind the blue sky there's a thousand storms 

But a smile or a touch or a love word's 

Like a rose among the thorns 

When you say you love me 

It erases all the worries on my mind 

'Cause you'll be with me tonight 

For a little while his memory's left behind 

I can take the thorns if there's 

Just an occasional rose 

I can bear the pain for a while 

Even though my heart knows 

You'll be thinkin' of him when 

We're makin' love, it always shows 

I can take the thorns if there's 

Just an occasional rose