"Broken Girl" - Matthew West

Matthew West released a new record last week. The whole album is incredible, but this is the song that hit me the hardest.



Look what he’s done to you
It isn’t fair
Your light was bright and new
But he didn’t care
He took the heart of a little girl
And made it grow up too fast

Now words like innocence
Don’t mean a thing
You hear the music play
But you can’t sing
Those pictures in your mind
Keep you locked up inside your past

This is a song for the broken girl
The one pushed aside by the cold, cold world
You are, hear me when I say
You’re not the worthless they made you feel
There is a love they can never steal away
And you don’t have to stay the broken girl

Those damaged goods you see
In your reflection
Love sees them differently
Love sees perfection
A beautiful display
Of healing on the way tonight
Tonight, tonight

This is a song for the broken girl
The one pushed aside by the cold, cold world
You are, hear me when I say
You’re not the worthless they made you feel
There is a love they can never steal away
And you don’t have to stay the broken girl

Let your tears touch to the ground
Lay your shattered pieces down
And be amazed by how grace
Can take a broken girl
And put her back together again

This is a song for the broken girl
The one pushed aside by the cold, cold world
You are, hear me when I say
You’re not the worthless they made you feel
There is a love they can never steal away
And you don’t have to stay the broken girl