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Written by Amanda McBroom and made famous by Bette Midler, who performed it in the 1979 film The Rose. Since then it has been covered by a variety of artists.

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          C             G
Some say love, it is a river,
      F            G    C
That drowns the tender reed
                        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

           C                 G
It's the heart afraid of breaking
      F       G        C
That never learns to dance
          -xC-x               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


          C                   G
When the night has been too lonely
         F        G         C
And the road has been too long
         -xC-x               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
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Biography

Bette Midler (December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known to her fans and especially in gay culture, as The Divine Miss M. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Jewish parents from New Jersey, and raised there. Midler relocated to New York City to pursue acting on stage, and in 1970 she began singing at the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse in the city, where she became close to her piano accompanist, Barry Manilow, who produced her first major album, The Divine Miss M in 1973.

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