Bette Midler, The Rose (1979)
Key: :[C#] (w: Amanda McBroom)

VERSE 1:
Some say [C#] love, it is a [G#] river
That [F#] drowns, the [G#] tender [C#] reed
Some say [C#] love, it is a [G#] razor
That [F#] leaves, your [G#] soul to [C#] bleed

CHORUS 1:
Some say [Fm] love, it is a [A#m] hunger
An [F#] endless, aching [G#] need
I say [C#] love, it is a [G#] flower
And [F#] you, its [G#] only [C#] seed

VERSE 2:
It's the [C#] heart, afraid of [G#] breaking
That [F#] never, [G#] learns to [C#] dance
It's the [C#] dream, afraid of [G#] waking
That [F#] never, [G#] takes a [C#] chance

CHORUS 2:
It's the [Fm] one, who won't be [A#m] taken
Who [F#] cannot, seem to [G#] give
And the [C#] soul, afraid of [G#] dying
That [F#] never, [G#] learns to [C#] live

VERSE 3:
When the [C#] night, has been too [G#] lonely
And the [F#] road, has [G#] been too [C#] long
And you [C#] feel, that love is [G#] only
For the [F#] lucky, [G#] and the [C#] strong

CHORUS 3:
Just re-[Fm]-member, in the [A#m] winter
Far be-[F#]-neath, the bitter [G#] snow [G#sus4]
Lies the [C#] seed, that with the [G#] sun's love
In the [F#] spring, be-[G#]-comes the [C#] rose