(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)