I met a prophet dark as the night
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She could see into my soul
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Said she'd been watching and had some advice
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She said shadows make you whole
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A life without pain is a wolf in sheep's clothes
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Cause if you listen to the lessons that it holds
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You'll find the gold
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Child its time to break the shell
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Life's gonna hurt but its meant to be felt
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You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
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You cannot fly until you break the shell
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I can remember when I was a child
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How the grown folks seemed so crazy
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Why are they so angry, why are they so loud?
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And when I grow up that's never ever gonna be me
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That was the moment that I decide
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That I would build a wall just shy of six feet tall
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Too strong to fall
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Child its time to break the shell
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Life's gonna hurt but its meant to be felt
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You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
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You cannot fly until you break the shell
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Courage is not being hard
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It's time to peel back all of the layers
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You put between who You're meant to be
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And You who are
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And go be who You are
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So much disappointment to finally understand
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That there is no such thing as perfect
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Were all simply doing the best that we can
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And we have a choice to live or truly be alive
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(This is your time)
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Child its time to break the shell
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Life's gonna hurt but its meant to be felt
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You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
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A bird cannot fly until it breaks the shell
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Do with these words what you will
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Its time for us to be for real
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You'll be stuck on the ground until
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You finally break the shell
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Break The Shell
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| India.Arie |
