Bette Midler：The Rose

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ベット・ミドラーが、伝説の女性ロック・シンガー、ジャニス・ジョプリン（Janis Joplin）の生涯を元にした映画『The Rose』で歌ったあまりにも有名な曲です。多くのアーティストにカバーされており、日本では、平井堅や大黒摩季、Soweluなどがカヴァーしてます。

Bette Midler(ベット・ミドラー)のThe Roseの歌詞です。

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 its 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 dyin'
that never learns to live.

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been to 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.