[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
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[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
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[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
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[02:10.12]Courage is not being hard
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[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
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[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
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[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