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Some say love, it is a river that drowns the tender reed.
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Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need.
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I say love, it is a flower and you its only seed.
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It's the heart afraid of breakin' that never learns to dance.
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It's the dream afraid of wakin' that never takes a chance.
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It's the ones who won't be taken who cannot seem to give
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And the soul afraid of dyin' that never learns to live.
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When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long
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And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
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Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snows
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Lies the seed that, with the sun's love, in the spring becomes the rose.