make you

Thirteen, starin' in the mirror

You still look so innocent

But that was all gone yesterday

At eighteen, you'll see it a little clearer

As somethin' that was taken

Before you could give it away

And you'll feel dirty, you'll feel guilty

For what was done to you

There'll be a canyon in your chest

For what you can't undo

It's gonna make you hate yourself

When you didn't hate yourself at all

It's gonna make you build a fortress

Where you never had a wall

It's gonna make you question God

And wonder if he even cares

'Cause it's so messed up, it's so wrong

It's just so unfair

And when you're broken past the point

Of what a broken heart can take

The cracks'll heal

But you'll always feel the break

And that's what's gonna make you

At twenty, it hits you like a race-car

It still feels like a new scar

But one that you don't talk about

At twenty five, you find the strength to say it

And even though you can't change it

There's peace in sayin' it out loud

You'll feel angry, you'll feel sad

Once you see it's not your fault

And that canyon in your chest

Is the little girl you lost

It's gonna make you hate yourself

When you didn't hate yourself at all

It's gonna make you build a fortress

Where you never had a wall

It's gonna make you question God

And wonder if he even cares

'Cause it's so messed up, it's so wrong

It's just so unfair

And when you're broken past the point

Of what a broken heart can take

The cracks'll heal

But you'll always feel the break

And that's what's gonna make you

It's gonna make you love yourself

When you don't love yourself at all

'Cause if you can get through that

There's no valley that's too tall

And all those questions you ask God

Are still gonna be there

'Cause it's so messed up, it's so wrong

It's just so unfair

And it's amazing where a broken heart can take you

All the things that bend and stain and break you

That's what's gonna make you

But that's what's gonna make you