Let's sit down on a mountaintop
And take in all the people.
Let's look down and smile
Upon our fantastic equals
Going about their everyday lives
Through pain that's unimaginable.
Yet we refuse to open our eyes.
See, in this wonderful, wonderful life
It's hard to know if we matter at all,
If being a good person is really important.
We all get stuck thinking we're small
And that we're much too insignificant.
We think that our very existence
Is much too tiny to make a difference.
But that's where we're wrong.
See, we can stay in the corner;
We can cry about all of the ways
That we're broken and falling apart
Or we can pick up all the broken pieces
And build ourselves brand new hearts
Because shattered glass is beautiful
And makes breathtaking works of art.
You can speak up for the voices
That have never been heard.
You can meld people's minds
Using only your words,
Or you can run from your problems
And neglect everything you know,
Everything you feel down in your soul.
You can push down what you feel inside
And you can dig yourself deep in a hole,
Try to replace what's missing with pride
But you'll never get where you need to go.
These are the choices we make every day,
Every hour, every minute, every second.
Though you've been hurt and you still may ache,
Though you've been cut and nearly bled dry,
The biggest mistake you could possibly make
Is the choice not to try.
Just like everyone who came before you
And the others that are yet to come
And those who you will teach it to,
And those you learned it from.
Everyone who stands behind you,
Everyone who's ever cared,
The best friends you could ever ask for.
These are the voices in your head,
The ones you simply can't ignore.
They kept climbing when the slope got steep.
They kept their eyes open in their sleep.
They never lost faith in hope and in dreams.
They never gave up
Though they were tearing at the seams.
See you've got yourself a strength and a purpose.
You've got a reason to be.
You've got a fire inside your heart.
You've got everything you need.
You just have to make the choice
About your impact on the world.
Will you fight or will you flee?
Will you break or will you be?
Because I don't know if you've heard or not
But we're all standing in the dark.
But the thing that's really crucial
Is that some us are looking at the stars.
