Capo 7th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

Looking back on the things that found me

Places I would never choose

The same things that both haunt and heal

My demons and my muse

Chorus

We are crushed and created

We are melted and made

We are broken and built up

In the very same way

What I thought I could handle

What I thought I could take

What I thought would destroy me

Leaves me stronger in its wake

Verse 2

And there are times that I've underestimated

Both the grief and goodness found in something new

Where one thing dies, something else can be created

And though it's truth you find, it's innocence you lose

Chorus

We are crushed and created

We are melted and made

We are broken and built up

In the very same way

What I thought I could handle

What I thought I could take

What I thought would destroy me

Leaves me stronger in its wake

Ooooo.

I'm not the me that I started with

My friends say my eyes are brighter

I'm not the me that I started with

I'm freer, and I'm wiser, and I'm stronger

Chorus

We are crushed and created

We are melted and made

We are broken and built up

In the very same way

What I thought I could handle

What I thought I could take

What I thought would destroy me

Leaves me stronger, stronger

We are crushed and created

We are melted and made

We are broken and built up

In the very same way

What I thought I could handle

What I thought I could take

What I thought would destroy me

Leaves me stronger in its wake

It leaves me stronger