Month long meme: Day 001 ⇒ Your Favorite Song (Bette Midler, "The Rose")

[thebriar_rose]

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[powerof_one]

That's a beautiful song.

[thebriar_rose]

It is...even if it makes me a little sad.

[powerof_one]

It is a little sad, yeah...guess I just sorta understand it.

[thebriar_rose]

It's the second verse that gets to me, I think.

"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance...it's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance."

[powerof_one]

It's the last one that gets me every time.

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

[thebriar_rose]

Yes...yes, that one, too.

[powerof_one]

It just rings so true. And Bette Midler's sort of...classic, I guess.

[thebriar_rose]

I think this is the only song of hers that I've heard, actually.

[powerof_one]

I could find you more, if ya want? Sure I've got a record somewhere you could listen to. Hundred years, you accumulate a lotta crap.

[thebriar_rose]

I would love that.

[powerof_one]

Great! I'll hit the stacks some night I got some time.

You know, I got a fair extensive collection...century of bein' a packrat and all. You ever wanna look for more to listen to, you just come by my place and it's carte blanche, anything you wanna borrow or keep if it's somethin' I hate.

[thebriar_rose]

Really? You wouldn't mind?

[powerof_one]

Not a bit, doll. You just drop in any old time, m' usually alone anyway.

[thebriar_rose]

All right...if you're sure that you don't mind, then I will.

[powerof_one]

I'll keep the door open and a cold one in the fridge for ya.

[thebriar_rose]

...A cold, what, exactly?