Capo 2
[Intro]
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(x2)
[Verse]
When you were born you were not alone
Nothing was carved into the stone quite yet, but don t forget
You heard someone say it won t get better than this
That was the sound of your father
As he held you up to your mother
No one will ever know,
a love a pure as the one that you felt right then
They held you up, they held you up
And everybody else they fell to the wayside
This is the start the beginning
The prologue to the tale that you re spinning
A million synonyms will never come close to describe the feeling
Don t ever leave, cause if you do dear
I guarantee that you ll regret the day you did
and you ll miss all the simple things
And you ll see everything you ve ever loved
start fading till there s nothing left oh
[Chorus]
And I believe that every broken bone is meant to be
And when it heals it will be stronger than it was before
And I see, the things that I pretend that I don t see
And I keep them in my head love
If only for memories
[Break]
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[Verse]
So now you re young and you feel alone
Despite friends family and all the good things now surrounding you
You can t help thinking that there s gotta be some more to do
When all the things that you cherish
Turn into burdens and there is
No other path to take,
you know what you ve got to do but you don t know how
They hold you back they hold you down
And you re gonna feel bad but you know that you ve gotta get out
This is your pain your dilemma
Do you stay in the town where they raised ya
Or will you sail away, pull the anchor and go headed for the come-what-may?
You have to leave, cause if you don t dear
you ll never see the things you read about in books
you saw the films and you were hooked
but everything you want won t come to you
you realize now that you ve gotta go see this through
[Chorus]
And I believe that every broken bone is meant to be
And when it heals it will be stronger than it was before
And I see, the things that I pretend that I don t see
And I keep them in my head love
If only for memories
[Instrumental Bit]
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(x3)
[Verse]
So now you re old raising your own
Two souls to make yourself a home, you finally settled down
you ve seen the world but your heart never left this town
They have the eyes of their mother
The kind of crooked teeth of their father
No one will ever know
A love as pure as the one that you feel for them
You ll hold them up you ll hold them up
And everybody else will fall to the wayside
There is no end no beginning
On this merry-go-round we call living
Some day you will return, every single ounce of the love you were given
Someday they ll go, and when they leave home
you will be grateful for the lesson that you learned
you had to travel half the world
to realize what you knew all along
that everything will end up where it belongs
[Chorus]
And I believe that every broken bone is meant to be
And when it heals it will be stronger than it was before
And I see, the things that I pretend that I don t see
And I keep them in my head love
If only for memories
[Outro]
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