What is the meaning of the song "Rose Garden"?

Who is talking? the lover or "love" itself? What I mean is, is it the lover who is not promising the rose garden or is it love who is not promising the rose garden? or neither? :-)

What is the meaning of the song "Rose Garden"?
Lynn Anderson (1971)


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I beg your pardon,


I never promised you a rose garden.


Along with the sunshine,


There's gotta be a little rain sometimes.


When you take, you gotta give, so live and let live,


Or let go.


I beg your pardon,


I never promised you a rose garden.


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The singer is singing to his girlfriend, wife,spouse,significant other.


The narrator explains to his/her lover that though their relationship is not perfect, they should be grateful for the good and accept the bad along with it





Another website reports that another singer included the song in her album in 2005 and the song took off again in the charts but not with the same success in 1971.
Reply:You might like "Soul Mates and Twin Flames," Elizabeth Clare Prophet, and "Sexual Force or the Winged Dragon," O. M. Aivanhov.





Sometimes it seems like love is talking to the singer.
Reply:The lover is talking, but she is also making a statement about love. People are not perfect; we make mistakes that hurt our love for one another. So, she is saying that she never promised him that all would be roses because she knows that everything cannot always be forever good in love. Inevitably, there is also some bad.