Six Feet Deep - Broken Tree lyrics

rate me

maybe the limbs of a broken tree will heal themselves in time

or maybe the limbs from that broken tree will petrify......

hard as stone.

as I peel back the layers I find things I never knew were there

and as I listen to my prayers I hear myself confused and scared.

this broken tree feels like it's part of me somehow controlling

my destiny.

has the seed of a broken promise decided what I will be?

and I, left to myself can only hope to survive.

and I, left to myself can only slowly die.

how long will I drift? would I not know the difference?

have I weathered so long that I've been shaped by this ocean?

will the legacy live on in me? like father, like son?

I don't believe that what I am is determined by what

precedes me.

and now I have to realize that the past is not my future

and in Christ I'm a brand new creature.

and I, left to myself can only hope to survive.

and I, left to myself can only slowly die.

but given grace I know I can,

given grace I can learn to forgive.

in the face of all of this.

given grace I can truly live.