Glorious You

Can see you hurting beneath your new red dress

Beneath your sharp new shoes and your new tattoos you are directionless

And I know you've been working as hard as you can

To pre-empt the question, the expectation and I understand

So come on now if we all pull together

We can lift up the weight of the world from your shoulders

Lift up the weight of the world from your shoulders

Just for a moment or two

From the moment the phone alarm cuts the morning in two

To the moment you close your bedroom door and all that's left is you

There are a thousand auditions you didn't quite get through

So many masks to wear, so much weight to bear but you were only ever you

You were glorious you, you were glorious

So come on now if we all pull together

We can lift up the weight of the world from your shoulders

Lift up the weight of the world from your shoulders

Just for a moment or two

Come on now if we all pull together

We can lift up the weight of the world from your shoulders

Lift up the weight of the world from your shoulders

Just for a moment or two

Be glorious you, glorious you, glorious you

With your mixed-up metaphors, your messed-up makeup

Glorious you

With your tongue-tied tragedy, your too-small t-shirt

Glorious you

So don't you worry all things must end

There are sunlit uplands around the river bend

Come on now if we all pull together

We can lift up the weight of the world from your shoulders

Lift up the weight of the world from your shoulders

Just for a moment or two

Come on now if we all pull together

We can lift up the weight of the world from your shoulders

Lift up the weight of the world from your shoulders

Just for a moment or two and be glorious you

Glorious you, glorious you

You were glorious you

You were glorious you

You were glorious you