Molly Kate Kestner - If You Could See lyrics

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If you could see

Past the beauty you'd see the bruises

She refuses to show no one can know that he's abusive

Cause if she loses him she thinks she loses her identity

If you could see

Past the muscle you'd see a man

Who is nothing more than a shell of body because nobody cared

Who he was until he played sports and made the homecoming court

So he trains thru pain and fear of losing every thing that he has worked for

If you could see

Past the sarcasm you'd see someone Who is scared of being honest

Cause they don't want to face the truth

If you only knew what they'd been thru you'd understand why they try so hard to make you laugh

If you could see, past their race you'd see a face

That is beautifully unique but they've erased every trace of culture from their Facebook

Cause they have been ignorantly misunderstood and are afraid of neva fitting into this culture of Hollywood

If you could see past the age

You'd see a spirit inside old soul who is waiting for someone to ask what their story is

A life time of knowledge, of laughter and tears but years of growth

Mean nothing if they are neva acknowledged

If you could see past the weight

You'd wait to pass your judgment and instead understand that the way youdissect

Them is only a fraction of the way they degrade themselves

And perhaps they do not need another opinion but rather an actual friend who adores every single inch of their skin

If you could see past the prescription

You'd see a life on a thread, not dead but not alive

Because You try to survive depression without losing feeling and dealing

With the problem isn't easy when you're problems outnumber the waves in the sea

If you could see past the pregnancy

You'd see her praying for protection each day over the baby that was forged

Out of force and of course you can't see that she neva wanted to agree to

This but she is stuck with the repercussions as he slips away without a single obstruction

And all she is left with is her shame and your judgment

If you could see

Past the first glance that you took at these people you would see

That each one has a story to tell and to finish and they wish someone would actually

Care but instead you stare and you try to figure them out without a doubt that there

Actually might be more to them than meets the eye. I can't live like that

I want to see past the lies

See past the smiles, see past the walls

Cause we all hurt. We all need love.

We all need someone who knows the true story and not just the front cover.

They should not suffer just cause I am too focused on myself to see where they are

Cause it's not too far from my own war. I've worn a mask half my life and filtered out

Every flaw but I finished that show I don't want your applause I just want to live.

And I want to love relentlessly, extensively unconditionally that means I see

Every side of you and choose to love you even more than I did before and now

Your war is mine & you don't have to try to do this alone

Cause if you can see

Thru the eyes of someone who loves you'll be slow to judge

And quick to listen and you won't just listen you'll actually care

And that, that is where I want to be

A place where everyone loves who they see.