Bend

I am not my family tree

These are different leaves, you know

There are miles and miles between

My roots and what I'm tryin' to grow

I am not the slave they sold

Nor am I royalty

I've worn them both

The finest coat,

And rags that barely covered me

But there's mercy in the soil

Mercy in the sun

Learnin' to forgive

What cannot be undone

What was meant to harm

Can't harm you in the end

Stepped out on a limb I thought my break

But love said,

It will only bend

I am not my past mistakes

Labeled by some place in time

Nor am I a trophy case

Tryin' to maintain my shine

I have dreamed a thousand dreams

Watch a grain in famine grow

I am not my family tree

I have branches of my own

But there's mercy in the soil

Mercy in the sun

Learnin' to forgive

What cannot be undone

And what was meant to harm

Can't harm you in the end

Stepped out on a limb I thought might break

But love said,

It will only bend

Oh, Does fate resign us too?

Find shelter for our wounds

Beneath the battered roof of broken dreams

Oh, But I will choose to stand

In the shadow of Your hand

And see what grows when grace has sown the seed

Oh, oh, oh

These are different leaves, you know

Oh, oh, oh

But there's mercy in the soil

Mercy in the sun

Learnin' to forgive

What cannot be undone

And what was meant to harm

Can't harm you in the end

Stepped out on a limb I thought might break

But love said,

It will only bend

It will only bend

It will only bend

Oh,

It will only bend