My dear friend Sandi (who doesn't blog - yet), first told me about this song in November. We both have joked about feeling like "substitute people" for large portions of our lives, (that's an Elizabethtown reference) and this song kinda goes along with that feeling. Though I loved Natalie Grant's music already, I somehow never had heard this song, and since then, have worn it out. The words are so perfect for almost any girl I know. It makes me think right now of the study we're doing on Daniel in my discipleship group and the whole pull of Babylon that we have talked about - the desire to put up a false image of ourselves, to hide what's really underneath, and how this world encourages us to be perfect looking, though the heart doesn't seem to matter too much. Of course, God looks at the heart, not on the outward appearance. Isn't that just like Him? :-)
The Real Me - Natalie Grant
Foolish heart, looks like we're here again.
Same old game of plastic smile,
Don't let anybody in.
Hiding my heartache,
Will this glass house break?
How much will it take before I'm empty?
Do I let it show?
Does anybody know?
CHORUS:
But You see the real me.
Hiding in my skin, broken from within.
Unveil me completely.
I'm loosening my grasp,
There's no need to mask my frailty
Cause You see the real me.
Painted on, life is behind a mask,
Self-inflicted circus clown.
I'm tired of the song and dance,
Living a charade, always on parade.
What a mess I've made of my existence.
But You love me even now
And still I see somehow...
CHORUS
Wonderful, beautiful is what you see
When You look at me.
You're turning the tattered fabric of my life
Into a perfect tapestry.
Oh, I just wanna be me,
I just wanna be me.
CHORUS
and you love me just as i am.
wonderful, beautiful is what you see
when you look at me.
3 comments:
Wow, what a good song! That really is so sad that we all feel the need to apppear perfect all the time.
Great song. What is so sad is that most of us are in loving communities that are willing to accept us, but we are too afraid, and are hearing Satan's lies too loudly, to just cut loose. I for one am so tired of acting that I am getting to the point that I am willing to risk losing a few friends. That would be the test of a true friend anyway, wouldn't it?
I love that song. It really does speak to what I want to be able to sing with truth. Too much of the time, though, I not only hear evil's lies, but my flesh chooses to walk in that. I get way too caught up in thew world. Thank the Lord He's patient and loves me no matter how many times I continue to choose sin over Truth. And I do it all the time. Makes me sad.
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