Break The Shell-India.Arie

[00:01.52]Break the Shell - India Arie [00:11.32]I met a prophet dark as the night [00:16.31]She could see into my soul [00:20.44]Said she'd been watching and had some advice [00:25.69]She said shadows make you whole [00:29.91]A life without pain is a wolf in sheep's clothes [00:35.35]Cause if you listen to the lessons that it holds [00:41.94]You'll find the gold [00:44.56] [00:45.33]Child it's time to break the shell [00:50.07]Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt [00:53.94]You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself [00:59.43]You cannot fly until you break the shell [01:06.10] [01:09.98]I can remember when I was a child [01:15.49]How the grown folks seemed so crazy [01:19.41]Why are they so angry why are they so loud [01:24.78]And when I grow up that's never ever gonna be me [01:28.83]That was the moment that I decide [01:34.15]That I would build a wall [01:36.41]just shy of six feet tall [01:40.46]Too strong to fall [01:44.04]Child it's time to break the shell [01:48.65]Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt [01:52.64]You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself [01:58.08]You cannot fly until you break the shell [02:05.42] [02:10.12]Courage is not being hard [02:14.69] [02:15.81]It's time to peel back all of the layers [02:20.87]You put between who You're meant to be [02:25.30]And who You are [02:29.24]And go be who You are [02:34.06] [02:36.62]So much disappointment to finally understand [02:42.30]That there is no such thing as perfect [02:46.30]Were all simply doing the best that we can [02:51.67]And we have a choice to live or truly be alive [02:59.31](This is your life) [03:02.31]Child it's time to break the shell [03:06.42]Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt [03:10.54]You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself [03:15.54]You cannot fly until You break the shell [03:21.14]Child it's time to break the shell [03:25.13]Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt [03:29.21]You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself [03:34.48]A bird cannot fly until it breaks the shell [03:40.95] [03:44.19]Do with these words what you will [03:48.62]It's time for us to be for real [03:53.49]You'll be stuck on the ground until [03:58.25]You finally break the shell