all our bruised bodies and the whole heart shrinks

So now

tell me how your story goes

Have you ever suffered?

If so

did you get better or have you

Never quite recovered from it?

Did you find your lover laying

In your bedroom with another and then

Did you let it hover over you

And everything else well after the fact?

Show me all your bruises

I know everybody wears them

They broadcast the pain

How you hurt

how you reacted

Did cancer take your child?

Did your father have a heart attack?

Have you had a moment force

The whole heart to grow or retract?

Or just shrink

Does the heart shrink?

Tell me everything

Tell me everything you know

Were you told as a child

How cruel the whole world can be?

Did anybody ever tell you that?

Tell me what your purpose is?

Who it was that put you here

and why?

Did anybody really put you here at all?

And what of those necessities?

Like how to cope with tragedy and pain?

Did anybody ever show you how?

When it hits

will my heart burst or break or grow strong?

Is there really only one way to know now?

I'm not sure if I'm ready yet to find out the hard way

How strong I am

what I'm made of

I'm not sure I am ready yet to walk through the fire

I'm not sure I can handle it

Do you think if the heart keeps on shrinking

One day there will be no heart at all?

And how long does it take?

Am I better off just bursting or breaking?

'Cause I don't see my heart getting strong

Tell your stories to me

show your bruises

Let's see what humanity is capable of handling

She lost her kid

only seven

to cancer

She answered with faith in her god and carried on

while

He was attacked by his son and was stabbed

In his stomach and his back and his arms

he showed me scars

82 years old

told me

"I still have my daughter and my wife

And I still have my life and my son"

Tell me what your worst fears are

I bet they look a lot like mine

Tell me what you think about

When you can't fall asleep at night

Tell me that you're struggling

Tell me that you're scared

No

tell me that you're terrified of life

Tell me that it's difficult

To not think of death sometimes

Tell me how you lost

Tell me how he left

Tell me how she left

Tell me how you lost everything that you had

Tell me it ain't ever coming back

Tell me about God

Tell me about love

Tell me that it's all of the above

Say you think of everything in fear

I bet you're not the only one who does

Everyone in the world comes at some point to suffering

I wonder when I will

I wonder

Everyone is out searching for someone or something

I wonder what I'll find

I wonder

Everyone in the world comes at some point to suffering

I wonder when I will

I wonder

Everyone is out searching for someone or something

I wonder what I'll find

I wonder

I wonder what I'll find

I wonder

I wonder what I'll find

I wonder what I'll find

I wonder what I'll find