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Artist: Joan Baez
Canonical path: /baez-joan/the-rose
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Rose
Read The Rose lyrics by Joan Baez on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Rose
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Some say love, it is a river
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love, it is a razor
That leaves the heart to bleed
Some say love, it is a hunger
An endless aching need
I say love, it is a flower
And we, must sow the seed
It's the heart, afraid of breaking
That never takes a chance
It's the dream, afraid of waking
That never learns to dance
It's the one who won't be taken
Who can not learn to give
It's the soul afraid of dying
That never learns to live
When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong
Just remember, in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose
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Who performs "The Rose"?
Joan Baez performs "The Rose", and this lyric page sits inside the Joan Baez catalog on LyroVerse.
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