What You Are-Jewel

[ti:What You Are] [ar:Jewel] [al:Sweet and Wild] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]What You Are - Jewel [00:17.01]I'm driving around town [00:19.70]Kinda bored with the windows rolled down [00:22.14]See a girl on the bus stop bench [00:25.14]Dressed to draw attention [00:27.53]Hoping everyone will stare [00:31.19]If she don't stand out she thinks she'll disappear [00:34.09]Wish I could hold her tell her show her [00:37.16]What she wants is already there [00:42.60]A star is a star [00:45.66]It doesn't have to try to shine [00:49.08]Water will fall [00:51.96]A bird just knows how to fly [00:54.96]You don't have to tell a flower how to bloom [00:58.39]Or light how to fill up a room [01:01.34]You already are what you are [01:05.42]And what you are is beautiful [01:14.35]Heard a story the other day [01:16.31]Took place at the local VA [01:19.94]A father talking to his dying son [01:22.88]This was his conversation [01:25.88]"It's not supposed to be like this [01:28.66]You can't go first I can't handle it" [01:31.87]The boy said "Dad now don't you cry [01:34.86]Remember when I was a child what you used to tell me when I'd ask why " [01:41.59](You'd say) Gravity is gravity [01:44.22]It doesn't try to pull you down [01:46.36]Stone is stone [01:49.47]It can't help but hold its ground [01:52.95]The wind just blows though you can't see [01:56.34]It's everywhere like I'll always be [01:59.16]You already are what you are [02:02.99]And what you are is strong enough [02:12.16]Look in the mirror [02:13.98]Now that's another story to tell [02:17.37]I give love to others [02:20.30]But I give myself hell [02:23.18]I'd have to tell myself [02:26.37]"In every scene there's a perfect plan" [02:29.24]Everything I hoped to be [02:32.68]I already am [02:37.12]A flower is a flower [02:39.82]It doesn't have to try to bloom [02:42.93]And light is light [02:45.27]Just knows how to fill a room [02:49.40]And dark is dark [02:51.96]So the stars have a place to shine [02:55.02]The tide goes out [02:57.52]So it can come back another time [03:00.46]Goodbye makes a love so sweet [03:04.55]And love is love so it can teach us [03:07.76]We already are what we are [03:13.47]And what we are is beautiful [03:19.97]And strong enough [03:22.82]And good enough [03:25.01]And bright enough