How It Is

Slack-jawed, staring like I’ve never witnessed grace before

I’ve been frozen, resolute to live a life unmoored

The bells ring, I’m in the kitchen In spite of me, oh

I’m hopeful Like I’ve never been in love before

I’ve been thoughtless, shut out bliss, forgotten what it’s for I know that the prayer’s in the yielding

Sweet surrender now to something more

Oh

Skies open wide Change in the tide

Oh, that’s just what it is No use in fighting

It’s unfolding and it’s never been so clear before

Broken open, everywhere the signs that I might be restored

Giving thanks for all I could’ve wasted

I am ready now and I’m focused

Having understood my fear’s a friend no more

All these riches trace a glowing path to what I’ve hungered for The farther I get from beginning

Ever closer now to something pure

Skies open wide

Doubts cast aside

All my certainties defied

Oh, that’s just how it is

No use in crying

No use in trying Oo

No use in crying

Oh

Skies open wide

Change in the tide

Oh, that’s just what it is

No use in fighting

Oh

Skies open wide

Doubts cast aside

All my certainties defied

Oh, that’s just how it is

No use in crying

That’s just how it is

No use in crying

Oh, that’s just how it is

No use in crying