We are beautiful no matter what they say
Yes, words won't bring us down
We are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring us down
So don't you bring me down today.
All the way down the M58 coming home from deepest Wigan this lunchtime I was looping this - Christina Aguilera's Beautiful [words : : download]. On Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad, Pip's 2003 favourites compilation. Very singable. Very emotive.
A morning at the annual diocesan Renewal of Commitment to Ministry service sensitised me to it: the power of the story of the woman perfuming the condemned man's feet with her hair, risking shame and criticism; its creative possibilities. At that woman's lips Aguilera's words say so much in their simplicity: celebration, empathy, and defiance.
No matter what we do
No matter what we say
We're the song inside the tune
Full of beautiful mistakes
And everywhere we go
The sun will always shine
But tomorrow we might awake
On the other side
john davies
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