A Broken Shell

Justin Burkett

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We made a mess of the ages, and somehow missed all these messages

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And now we’re turning the pages, going over the marks in the passages

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Squeezing through tight places through these darkest of spaces

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Now we’re rising up to finally penetrate the surface

 

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Feel the touch of the stars, hear the crashing of the waves

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Here we stand upon the shore, littered with all of these shattered shells

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Feel it breaking apart, there’s a tear in my heart

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I see a light, shining in, making space for something new to begin

 

There’s a funny thing about the way it all turns out

That’s how the story goes, like a nibble on the nose

Receiving a transmission, but do we choose to listen

Or do we let it ring and wonder why we keep on missing

 

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And if your heart ever gets heavy, just remember who you are

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Just bring your breath into your belly, you’re a child of the stars

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Just breathe it out and breathe it in, and then again

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know we are on our way back home

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Just breathe it out and breathe it in, and then again

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yeah we are on our way back home

 

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Feel the touch of the stars, hear the crashing of the waves

                  G                                                                Dmaj7

Here we stand upon the shore, littered with all of these shattered shells

                  A                                              em

Feel it breaking apart, there’s a tear in my heart

                  G                                   Dmaj7

I see a light, shining in, making space for something new to begin

 

 

                  A                                              em

Feel the touch of the stars, hear the crashing of the waves

                  G                                                                Dmaj7

Here we stand upon the shore, littered with all of these shattered shells

                  A                                              em

Feel it breaking apart, there’s a tear in my heart

                  G                                   Dmaj7

I see a light, shining in, making space for something new to begin