A Rose Is a Rose

You're at a standstill

You're at an impasse

Your mountains of dreams

Seems harder to climb

By those who have made you

Feel like an outcast

Cause you dare to be different

So they're drawing a line

They say you're a fool

They feed you resistance

They tell you you'll never go very far

But they'll be the same ones

That stand in the distance

Alone in the shadow

Of your shining star

Just keep on the same road

And keep on your toes

And just keep your heart

Steady as she goes

And let them call you what they will

It don't matter

A rose by any name is still a rose

The kindness of strangers

It seems like a fable

But they've yet to see what I see in you

But you can make it if you are able

To believe in yourself the way I do

Just keep on the same road

And keep on your toes

And just keep your heart

Steady as she goes

And let them call you what they will

It don't matter

A rose by any name is still a rose

'Cause a deal is a deal

In the heart of the dream

And a spade is a spade

If you know what I mean

And a rose is a rose, is a rose, oh...

To deal with the scoffers

Well, it's part of the bargain

They heckle from backrows

And they bark at the moon

Their flowers are fading

In time's bitter garden

But yours is only

Beginning to bloom

So keep on that same road

And keep on your toes

And just keep your heart

Steady as she goes

And let them call you what they will

Just remember

A rose by any name is still a rose

Oh, a rose by any name is still a rose