As You Are

© ellis 2002

stop and look down at your feet

they are tired, with no relief

you run in circles around yourself

always looking somewhere else.

you're in so much pain

you try to numb it with anything

but it doesn't matter that you are

what you're running from

all the time you are there

chorus:

you are a warrior, you are a master

you have potential forever after

you are an angel that's filled with laughter

open your heart and your pain will shatter

everything falls apart in the end

things change, and you can't hold on to them

but we try we pretend that we are lost

and we can't find our way home again

we are taught to escape, we are taught to conceal

we are told we are bad because of how we look

or how we feel

even if you were perfect in other people's eyes

you can't find happiness looking on the outside

all the time you are there

chorus

...you are an angel, just open your heart

be willing to see yourself as you are

be willing to be yourself as you are