| Bette Midler – The Rose Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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My mom adored this song like no other. When she died of cancer it was one of the obvious songs we played at her funeral. A few months later I met an amazing girl, and now a year later I feel like I've come to understand the lyrics in a way I never did before. She had a heart afraid of breaking and it killed our relationship. She preemptively took her heart and commitment out of the relationship, even though she loved me. She did realize she was doing so but rationalized it by saying that she didn't deserve love. I tried to convince her she deserved mine and I deserved her heart to open up to me but she couldn't commit to it. In her defense the next line very much applies to me. I've had plenty of dreams but never dared to make any of them reality. I'm to afraid of waking to take the chance to make my life into what I hope it to be. Something she had less isuee. with. I guess ultimately I feel encouraged by Midler's words that some winter another seed will grow into the rose of love, for both me and my former beloved. Hopefully one day my mother can look down on me and see that I grew up happy and loved by someone willing to dance with me. |
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