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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 your soul to bleed

 Some say love it is a hunger

 An endless aching need

 I say love it is a flower

 And you it's only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking

That never learns to dance

 It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance

 It's the one who won't be taken

 Who cannot seem to give

 And 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 snows

 Lies the seed

 That with the sun's love

 In the spring

 Becomes the rose