DOING BETTER

I CAN DO BETTER

You said I was asking too much

Just wanting your time

Dinner got cold on the table

While you chased your pride

Makeup stained on a Sunday dress

From crying all night

Still I was praying for both of us

In the low kitchen light

I let your storms call me broken

Till I believed every word you spoke

But there's a Voice in the silence

Cutting straight through the smoke

I can do better

Than begging for a halfway love

There's a hand that holds me steady

When the road gets rough

You can keep your empty promise

I've got heaven in my corner

I'm not waiting on your weather

'Cause with God in my tomorrow

I can do better

You said, "Girl, you're nothing without me"

That cut like a knife

But grace pulled the lie from my rib cage

Breathed me back to life

Now I hear truth in the mirror

I'm His, I'm enough

You can't rewrite what He wrote down

In His ink of love

I won't wear chains like jewelry

Won't dim down just so you shine

I've got fire in my spirit

And a strength that ain't mine

If it hurts this hard, it's a healing

If it shakes this much, it's a door

Every "no" I hear from people

Makes me lean on Him more

[build / choir harmonies enter]

I'm done shrinking just to please you

I'm done holding back my praise

If you leave, I'll keep on singing

God is writing better days