Makes It Beautiful

Lyrics

Verse 1
An encampment caught a spark
Smoked up the little lot
You came in clean and quiet
Like you’d never had to squat

Upper middle, well kept
Now your hands in ash
Picking through the rebel
Melted plastic, bent trash

Everybody looked puzzled
At the way you knelt
You held a scorched-up handle
Like it somehow still meant wealth

Pre-Chorus
You said, “Wait”
Then you smiled at the pain
Put your name on a ruin
Made a home from the flame

Chorus
You make it beautiful
You make it beautiful
From the melted and the broken
You make it beautiful

You make it beautiful
You make it beautiful
When the whole camp went empty
You made it beautiful

Verse 2
Built a little bungalow
Boards from what was left
A swing on a bent branch
With the chain tied close and blessed

Water wheel turning slow
By a jar-gold stream
Made a coy pond shimmer
Like a half-remembered dream

Solar on the roofline
Tin pieced into shine
Even the old dogs settled
Like they knew your line

And the men stood back and grinned
As you mapped your space
From a pile of scorched-up pieces
You made a softer place

Pre-Chorus
You said, “Watch”
Then you gave that junk new skin
Turned the cold into shelter
Let the living begin

Chorus
You make it beautiful
You make it beautiful
From the melted and the broken
You make it beautiful

You make it beautiful
You make it beautiful
When the whole camp went empty
You made it beautiful

Bridge
Then you sunbathed by the wheel
Dust on your knees
Freight train rolled by slow
Through the cut of the trees

Every boxcar clattered
Like it knew your name
And I watched you laugh at nothing
Then kiss the dust the same

Chorus
You make it beautiful
You make it beautiful
From the melted and the broken
You make it beautiful

You make it beautiful
You make it beautiful
When the whole camp went empty
You made it beautiful

Outro
Beauty in the scorch marks
Grace in the scrap
You had nothing but your hands
And you built it back