Carolyn Arends Album: Under the Gaze Track: Fragile
Fragile Lyrics
Carolyn Arends
Life would be easier in thicker skin Yours is thin Porcelain It would be better if you wouldn't cry All your friends They wonder why
You're fragile, easily broken You're fragile, already scarred You're fragile, but haven't you noticed All the most precious things are
Well if the eyes are windows to the soul Yours is blue And beautiful You just don't have the knack for building walls Whatever comes You feel it all
You're fragile, easily broken...
I've heard it said there's got to be a crack or two For the light to get through It seems to me that you are meant to be the kind Who shines
You're always trying to find an even keel Somewhere safe And not so real But you were made to live the lows and highs A winter rose A butterfly
You're fragile, easily broken...
C 2004 Songs of Peer, Ltd / Mr. Marley's Music (ASCAP)
About the Song
I was once chatting with a group of good friends from my church about a mutual friend who was absent, and - to the best of our knowledge - had been struggling of late. "I think," one of my friends confided, "she's always been a little fragile." We all nodded knowingly.
However much we loved our absent friend, in all truthfulness we didn't label her "fragile" as a complement. It was a nice way of saying something along the lines of "emotionally unstable" or "weak". But I got to thinking later about how much we fight our weakness, and how much that fight flies in the face of the Apostle Paul's promise that it is in our very weakness that God is strong. Leonard Cohen once said "There are cracks, cracks in everything - that's how the light gets in." So why do we spend so much time trying to cover over the cracks?
I've come to think of my fragile friend (actually, I've got several, and one of them lives in my own skin) more like fine china - rare, valuable, easily broken and therefore deserving of respect and the utmost care.
