let it be.

Some people bring you gifts
Some give you bricks that weigh you down
So they can swim a little higher while you drown
Some people mean so well
Their way was the best way that they found
But any other way you choose
Is a brick that weighs you down

So tell me,
What do I do with this backpack full of bricks?
Of sticks and stones
And words that stuck to me like ticks?

Let it go, let it be.
Brick by brick we can be free
Of all the words we saved
'till we were our own enemies.
Let it go, let it be.
Brick by brick we can believe
in the person God intended us to be.
Let it be.

Some people give themselves a brick
I know most people do
When we compare
We fall short somewhere, it's always true
If all we see is where we fall
We brick the prison wall
Instead of trying to learn to fly, we've tought ourselves to fall.

We could believe in ourselves more.
We could try for unique instead of trying to conform.
We could defy what they tell us
And don't buy the lies they sell us
If we are brave we can believe in what we are.

"His love has no fear, because perfect love casts out all fear." 1 John 4:18