Break The Shell

Album: Songversation (2013)
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  • I met a prophet dark as the night
    She could see into my soul
    Said she'd been watching and had some advice
    She said shadows make you whole
    A life without pain is a wolf in sheep's clothes
    Cause if you listen to the lessons that it holds
    You'll find the gold

    Child its time to break the shell
    Life's gonna hurt but its meant to be felt
    You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
    You cannot fly until you break the shell

    I can remember when I was a child
    How the grown folks seemed so crazy
    Why are they so angry, why are they so loud?
    And when I grow up that's never ever gonna be me
    That was the moment that I decide
    That I would build a wall just shy of six feet tall
    Too strong to fall

    Child its time to break the shell
    Life's gonna hurt but its meant to be felt
    You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
    You cannot fly until you break the shell

    Courage is not being hard
    It's time to peel back all of the layers
    You put between who you're meant to be
    And you who are
    And go be who you are

    So much disappointment to finally understand
    That there is no such thing as perfect
    Were all simply doing the best that we can
    And we have a choice to live or truly be alive

    This is your life

    Child its time to break the shell
    Life's gonna hurt but its meant to be felt
    You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
    You cannot fly until it breaks the shell

    Child its time to break the shell
    Life's gonna hurt but its meant to be felt
    You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
    The bird cannot fly until it breaks the shell

    Do with these words what you will
    Its time for us to be for real
    You'll be stuck on the ground until
    You finally break the shell Writer/s: DAVID HARRIS
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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