Bend (Joseph) - Brandon Heath (youtube & grooveshark)

I am not my family tree

These are different leaves, you know

There are miles and miles between

My roots and what I’m trying to grow

I’m not the slave they sold

Nor am I royalty

I’ve worn them both, the finest coat

The rages that barely covered me

chorus (below)

I am not my past mistakes

Labeled by some place and time

Nor am I a trophy case

Trying to main to maintin my shine

I have dreamed a thousand dreams

Watched a grain in famine grow

I am not my family tree

I have branches of my own

chorus (below)

Does fate resign us to

Find shelter for our wounds

Beneath the battered roof of broken dreams?

But I will choose to stand In the shadow of your

Hand And see what grows when grace has sown the seed  

These are different leaves, you know

chorus:

But there’s mercy in the soil

Mercy in the sun

Learning to forgive what cannot be undone

And what was meant was meant to harm

Can’t harm you in the end

Stepped out on a limb I thought might break

But Love said, it will only bend

It will only bend