Title: The Rose
Year: 1980
Singer: Amanda McBroom
Lyrics: Amanda McBroom
Beautiful lyrics that explain what love is :)
Title: Japanese: "Life is a Flower"
Year: 1991
Singer: Miyako Harumi
Lyrics: Isao Takahata
The Japanese version was titled 'Love is a Flower, You are Its Seed' ("Ai Wa Hana, Kimi Wa Sono Tane"). It was aptly used in the closing sequence of Only Yesterday, a wonderful anime movie by Isao Takahata.
Roman Script
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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 its only seed.
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It's the heart, afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance.
It's the dream, afraid of waking, that never takes a 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.
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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.