| 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, it’s time to break the shell
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| Life’s gonna hurt but it’s 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 6 feet tall
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| Too strong to fall
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| Child, it’s time to break the shell
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| Life’s gonna hurt but it’s 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 who you 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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| We’re 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 life
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| Child it’s time to break the shell
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| Life’s gonna hurt but it’s 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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| Child it’s time to break the shell
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| Life’s gonna hurt but it’s 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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| It’s 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 |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Break The Shell , by - India.Arie. Song from the album SongVersation, in the genre R&B