DAMAGED GOODS

Damaged goods, that’s what I am

Since I was born

It’s all I ever heard

You're no good not even worth the time

Yet one voice in the darkness

Said it wasn’t so

Boy are you crazy

your not meant to dream

Only thing you’ll ever reach

Is the bottom of a whiskey bottle

But from a distant place I heard

I gave you wings to fly

No childhood for me

No tender arms to hold and ease my agony

Just cold dark emptiness feeding my soul

Stone cold, and hard was what I become

Before I turned to a man

I've had my share of life’s miseries

Yet in the stillness of the night

I heard don’t give up the fight

You're unworthy to be with us

As they throw me out into the night

Forsaken and totally alone

That distance voice cried

I won't give up on you

Just continue on

When in despair I sought the low places of this domain

Hoping to find just a little comfort there

But no love came near

Yes I gave in to all my earthly obsessions

Yet no freedom did I embrace

Still from the darkness down deep with in

I heard love is here

Most of my life I brought those lines

Of being damage goods

I settled for less or nothing at all

Yet you refused to let me fall

Damage goods is what I truly believed

No special one for you

So sell yourself short and

Settle for yesterday's news

Be grateful that any one would want you

Cause your damaged goods

Over and over that played in my mind

Till I no longer heard, I gave you wings to fly

For many years I lived in hell

Feeling all those tortured lonely years

Then from out of the void I heard it once more

I love you just as you are

With all your faults and scares

You're beautiful to me

And you always were

I believed in you I always will

Just when I felt I would die

When all hope was almost gone

That beautiful sweet voice

Spoke comfort to my vexed soul

And the phoenix was reborn

Damage goods was what I believed

But I'm also a child of the king

Rags may had adorn my youth

But now I wear a kings crown

He gave me wings so I could fly

Now I soar above the clouds

No more lies do I believe

For I'm a child of the king

So now I dream new dreams

I've dared to love

And risk everything

All because I heard that voice

Saying to my broken soul

I never doubted you at all

I never turned my back

For I would never let you go

Right from the start

I never gave up on you

All you needed to do

Was simply just believe

I love you just as you are

Precious, joyous and free