While searching for the song, The Rose by Bette Midler in the website and found that it is a soundtrack of a movie film with the same title. An American musical drama film directed by Mark Rydell and was released on November 9, 1979. |
| JANIS JOPLIN |
Bette Midler stars as Mary Rose Foster in this somber drama who plays an ill-fated singer who struggles to cope with the constant pressures or rather succumbs to the pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless British manager,Campbell Rudge (Alan Bates) by indulging in drugs and alcohol. Her sweetheart Huston Dyer (Frederic Forrest) is the former chauffeur who naively tries to save her from self destruction, while her British manager is ultimately blamed for not preventing her inevitable fall. Her rock and roll lifestyle of drugs, sex, and rock and roll and constant touring lead her to an inevitable breakdown.
On October 4, 1970, she was found dead at the age of twenty-seven and the official cause of her death was an overdose of heroin. The story mirrors any one of a number of popular singers who have fallen victim to the excess of success.
THE ROSE - Bette Midler
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 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
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