What You Are - Jewel

[00:16.400]I'm driving around town
[00:19.400]Kinda bored with the windows rolled down
[00:22.270]See a girl on the bus stop bench
[00:25.070]Dressed to draw attention
[00:28.610]Hoping everyone will stare
[00:31.270]If she don't stand out she thinks she'll disappear
[00:34.170]Wish I could hold her, tell her, show her
[00:37.290]What she wants is already there
[00:43.220]A star is a star
[00:46.180]It doesn't have to try to shine
[00:49.310]Water will fall
[00:52.170]A bird just knows how to fly
[00:55.570]You don't have to tell a flower how to bloom
[00:58.900]Or light how to fill up a room
[01:01.400]You already are what you are
[01:05.520]And what you are is beautiful
[01:14.010]Heard a story the other day
[01:17.000]Took place at the local VA
[01:20.060]A father talking to his dying son
[01:23.010]This was his conversation
[01:26.300]"It's not supposed to be like this
[01:28.910]You can't go first I can't handle it"
[01:31.920]The boy said "Dad now don't you cry,
[01:34.870]Remember when I was a child
[01:35.920]what you used to tell me
[01:39.210]when I'd ask why?"
[01:41.129](You'd say) Gravity is gravity
[01:44.140]It doesn't try to pull you down
[01:47.200]Stone is stone
[01:49.820]It can't help but hold its ground
[01:53.220]The wind just blows, though you can't see
[01:56.140]It's everywhere like I'll always be
[01:59.230]You already are what you are
[02:03.070]And what you are is strong enough
[02:11.820]Look in the mirror
[02:14.240]Now that's another story to tell
[02:17.590]I give love to others
[02:20.600]But I give myself hell
[02:24.040]I'd have to tell myself
[02:26.500]In every scene there's a perfect plan"
[02:29.770]Everything I hoped to be
[02:32.550]I already am
[02:37.300]A flower is a flower
[02:40.050]It doesn't have to try to bloom
[02:42.990]And light is light
[02:45.740]Just knows how to fill a room
[02:49.500]And dark is dark
[02:51.760]So the stars have a place to shine
[02:55.090]The tide goes out
[02:56.960]So it can come back another time
[03:01.260]Goodbye makes a love so sweet
[03:03.740]And love is love so it can teach us
[03:08.700]We already are what we are
[03:13.010]And what we are is beautiful
[03:19.800]And strong enough
[03:22.580]And good enough
[03:25.590]And bright enough