Tablature Bette Midler – The Rose

Couplet 1 :
          C            G
Some say love, it is a river,
     F          G      C
That drowns the tender reed
         (C)           G
Some say love, it is a razor,
      F          G       C
That leaves your soul to bleed
         Em           Am
Some say love it is a hunger,
      F            G
An endless acheing need
      C            G
I say love it is a flower and
F       G    C
You its only seed

Couplet 2 :
         C               G
It's the heart afraid of breaking
     F     G         C
That never learns to dance
         (C)             G
It's the dream afraid of waking
     F     G       C
That never takes a chance
         Em                Am
It's the one, who won't be taken
    F              G
Who cannot seem to give
        C              G
And the soul afraid of dying
F          G         C
That never learns to live

Couplet 3 :
         C                  G
When the night has been too lonely
         F       G        C
And the road has been too long
         (C)              G
And you feel that love is only
         F    G       C
For the lucky and the strong
     Em              Am
Just remember in the winter
      F                G
Far beneath the bitter snow
         C                  G
Lies the seed that with the sun's love,
       F      G           C
In the spring becomes the rose