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

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

CHORUS 1:
Some say [Dm] love, it is a [Gm] hunger
An [D#] endless, aching [F] need
I say [A#] love, it is a [F] flower
And [D#] you, its [F] only [A#] seed

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

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

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

CHORUS 3:
Just re-[Dm]-member, in the [Gm] winter
Far be-[D#]-neath, the bitter [F] snow [Fsus4]
Lies the [A#] seed, that with the [F] sun's love
In the [D#] spring, be-[F]-comes the [A#] rose