(Jan Buckingham/Linda Young)



Come, let me hold you for a while

All you have to do is smile

& I'm yours again

I may not like some things you do

But they're all a part of you

& you're my best friend



CHORUS:

I don't mind the cold when I have a fire to warm me

I don't mind the rain 'cause it makes the flowers grow

I can take the bad times when you wrap your love around me

I don't mind the thorns when you're the rose



Stay, we can work the whole thing out

That's what love's about

& I understand

You didn't mean the things you said

They're so easy to forget

When you take my hand



(chorus)



If it was anybody else, I would be gone

But you're so beautiful to me, oh that I keep on holding on



(chorus, then repeat its last line)