Don't Be So Hard On Yourself

Album: I Cry When I Laugh (2015)
Charted: 1
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  • I came here with a broken heart that no one else could see
    I drew a smile on my face to paper over me
    But wounds heal when tears dry and cracks, they don't show
    So don't be so hard on yourself, no

    Let's go back to simplicity
    I feel like I've been missin' me
    Was not who I'm supposed to be
    I felt this darkness over me
    We all get there eventually
    I never knew where I belonged
    But I was right and you were wrong
    Been tellin' myself all along

    Don't be so hard on yourself, no
    Learn to forgive, learn to let go
    Everyone trips, everyone falls
    So don't be so hard on yourself, no
    'Cause I'm just tired of marchin' on my own
    Kind of frail, I feel it in my bones
    Won't let my heart, my heart turn into stone
    So don't be so hard on yourself, no

    I'm standin' on top of the world, right where I wanna be
    So how can this dark cloud keep raining over me?
    But hearts break and hell's a place that everyone knows
    So don't be so hard on yourself, no

    Let's go back to simplicity
    I feel like I've been missin' me
    Was not who I'm supposed to be
    I felt this darkness over me
    We all get there eventually
    I never knew where I belonged
    But I was right and you were wrong
    Been tellin' myself all along

    Don't be so hard on yourself, no
    Learn to forgive, learn to let go
    Everyone trips, everyone falls
    So don't be so hard on yourself, no
    'Cause I'm just tired of marchin' on my own
    Kind of frail, I feel it in my bones
    Won't let my heart, my heart turn into stone
    So don't be so hard on yourself, no

    Oh, I
    I learned to wave goodbye
    How not to see my life
    Through someone else's eyes
    It's not an easy road
    But now I'm not alone
    So I, I won't be so hard on myself no more

    Don't be so hard on yourself, no
    Learn to forgive, learn to let go
    Everyone trips, everyone falls
    So don't be so hard on yourself, no
    'Cause I'm just tired of marchin' on my own
    Kind of frail, I feel it in my bones
    Won't let my heart, my heart turn into stone
    So don't be so hard on yourself, no

    'Cause I'm just tired of marchin' on my own
    Kind of frail, I feel it in my bones
    Won't let my heart, my heart turn into stone
    So don't be so hard on yourself, no Writer/s: Benjamin Alexander Kohn, Jessica Hannah Glynne, Peter Norman Cullen Kelleher, Thomas Andrew Searle Barnes, Wayne Anthony Hector
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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