Everything to Me
Posted by familysnows on 20 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Adoption
I am on call a couple of weekends a month at a local hospital and today I was called in to see a couple of patients. In my car I had a new CD I bought called Broken and Beautiful by Mark Schultz. As I was intently listening to each new song (he’s a fave of mine) I about lost it when I easily recognized a song that was about adoption giving tribute to both the birth parents AND the biological parents. The tears started flowing, I began groping for my kleenex box and about had to pull over! Adoption has been so much a part of our friends lives recently - both our online forum T21 and IRL (in real life) that I was deeply moved. Here are the beautiful lyrics and below them is a gift I received when searching for them: a link to the video…I hope you will be as blessed as I dear friends.
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Everything to Me
(Mark Schultz / Cindy Morgan)
I must have felt your tears
When they took me from your arms
I’m sure I must have heard you say goodbye
Lonely and afraid - had you made a big mistake
Could an ocean even hold the tears you cried
But you had dreams for me
You wanted the best for me
And you made the only choice you could that night
(Chorus)
You gave life to me
A brand new world to see
Like playing baseball in the yard with dad at night
Mom reading Goodnight Moon
And praying in my room
So if you worry that your choice was right…
You gave me up but you gave everything to me
And if I saw you on the street
Would you know that it was me
And would your eyes be blue or green like mine
Would we share a warm embrace
Would you know me in your heart
Or would you smile and let me walk on by
Knowing you had dreams for me
You wanted the best for me
And I hope that you’d be proud of who I am
(Chorus)
You gave life to me
A chance to find my dreams
And a chance to fall in love
You should have seen her shining face
On our wedding day
Oh is this the dream you had in mind
When you gave me up
You gave everything to me
And when I see you there
Watching from heaven’s gates
Into your arms
I’m gonna run
And when you look in my eyes
You can see my whole life
See who I was
And who I’ve become
(Chorus)
