"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"
He had never heard the song before but the last two lines in particular seemed to speak to him about what was happening during these times.
A few days later Kate noticed roses on Karl-Marx Allee and also Will & Georgie had just sent her some photos of roses.
A few weeks later, the day before they checked out of the apartment, Dave was making porridge and while drying the bowls, he began laughing at what he was staring at. Kate walked into the kitchen at that very moment and exclaimed "a rose!".
They hadn't clicked until now that the bowls they'd been eating out of everyday for the last month had a rose design on them. That day as they sat eating their porridge the song 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' came on the radio. Later, as they walked up to check out the area where their new apartment would be the first thing they saw as they turned onto the street was this...
That night on tv a programme called 'A Portrait of Bryan Adams' came on German tv and in the background while he was being interviewed was a single rose in a vase...
The following morning, January 16th 2011, as they sat down to eat their breakfast of porridge, the song on the radio was 'The Rose' - only the second time in their lives they had heard it... just before they left the apartment to move into a new one.
