Don Williams - The Rose guitar chord

The Rose

Don Williams

(Album: My Heart To You – 2004)

Intro: C

C G F C

Some say love it is a river, that drowns the tender reed.

G F C

Some say love it is a razor, that leaves your soul to bleed.

C7 F G

Some say love it is a hunger, and endless aching need

C G F C

I say love it is a flower, and you it's only seed.

C G F G C

It's the heart afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance

G F G C

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

Em Am F G

It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give

C G F G C

And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live.

C G F G C

When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long.

G F G C

That you think that love is only, for the lucky and the strong.

Em Am F G

Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow

C G F G C

Lies the seed that with the sun's love, in the spring, becomes a rose.