The Rose - Lyrics - Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer-songwriter who first rose to fame in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her own backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band. Her first ever large scale public performance was at the Monterey Pop Festival; this led her to becoming very popular and one of the major attractions at the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour. Joplin charted five singles; other popular songs include: "Down on Me"; "Summertime"; "Piece of My Heart"; "Ball 'n' Chain"; "Maybe"; "To Love Somebody"; "Kozmic Blues"; "Work Me, Lord"; "Cry Baby"; "Mercedes Benz"; and her only number one hit, "Me and Bobby McGee".
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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 lonley, and the road has been too long.
That 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 suns love, in the spring becomes the rose.
