What You Are

Album: Sweet and Wild (2010)
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  • I'm driving around town
    Kinda bored with the windows rolled down
    See a girl on the bus stop bench
    Dressed to draw attention

    Hoping everyone will stare
    If she don't stand out she thinks she'll disappear
    Wish I could hold her, tell her, show her
    What she wants is already there

    A star is a star
    It doesn't have to try to shine
    Water will fall
    A bird just knows how to fly

    You don't have to tell a flower how to bloom
    Or light how to fill up a room
    You already are what you are
    And what you are is beautiful

    Heard a story the other day
    Took place at the local VA
    A father talking to his dying son
    This was his conversation

    "It's not supposed to be like this
    You can't go first I can't handle it."
    The boy said "Dad now don't you cry,
    Remember when I was a child what you used to tell me when I'd ask why?"

    You'd say gravity is gravity
    It doesn't try to pull you down
    Stone is stone
    It can't help but hold it's ground

    The wind just blows, though you can't see
    It's everywhere like I'll always be
    You already are what you are
    And what you are is strong enough

    Look in the mirror
    Now that's another story to tell
    I give love to others
    But I give myself hell

    I'd have to tell myself
    "In every scene there's a perfect plan"
    Everything I hoped to be
    I already am

    A flower is a flower
    It doesn't have to try to bloom
    And light is light
    Just knows how to fill a room

    And dark is dark
    So the stars have a place to shine
    The tide goes out
    So it can come back another time

    Goodbye makes a love so sweet
    And love is love so it can teach us
    We already are what we are
    And what we are is beautiful

    And strong enough
    And good enough
    And bright enough Writer/s: DAVID ALLEN BERG, JEWEL KILCHER
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Downtown Music Publishing, Spirit Music Group
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