♫ ♪ ♫ I’m driving around town
Kinda bored, with the windows rolled down
See a girl on the bus stop bench
Dressed to draw attention

Hopin’ 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 a 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 talkin’ to his dying son
and this was the 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.
A stone is a stone…it can’t help but hold its ground.
The wind just knows
how to blow
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 have to tell myself,
In every seed there’s a perfect plant.
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…it 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 in another time.

“Goodbye” makes “Hello” 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…♫ ♪ ♫

~Jewel