some people bring you gifts
some bring you bricks to weigh you down
so they can swim a little higher
while you drown
some people mean so well
their was was the best way
that they found but any other way
you choose is a break 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 til 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 themslves 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've bricked a prison wall
instead of trying to learn to fly
we've taught ourselves to crawl
we oculd believe in ourselves
more we could try for unique
instead of trying to conform
we could defy what they tell us
don't buy the lies they sell us
if we're brave we can believe in what we are


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    I think this song is just awesome- i think its just basicly about all the hard times and all the things weve done to ourselves and what others do to us and it can actually be a good thing because we will learn from our hardships...and...how we can be free if we just let it go -

    jesusaves7x77on May 29, 2002   Link

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