Intro :
C G Am Em F Em C


Verse :
Am           F                   G 
    I met a prophet dark as the night
           C     G    Am
She could see into my soul
                 F                      G 
Said she'd been watching and had some advice
          C       G        Am 
She said shadows make you whole

                F                          G
A life without pain is a wolf in sheep's clothes
              C     G      Am      Em      F
Cause if you listen to the lessons that it holds
                 G
You'll find the gold


Chorus :
 C          G   Am            Em
Child it's time to break the shell
 F            Em            F           G
Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt
        C             G       Am         Em
You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
F          Em   F         G         C
You cannot fly until you break the shell


Verse :
Am          F                   G
   I can remember when I was a child
         C           G         Am
How the grown folks seemed so crazy
                 F                      G
Why are they so angry, why are they so loud ?
            C              G               Am
And when I grow up that's never ever gonna be me

              F               G
That was the moment that I decide
              C       G         Am     Em       F
That I would build a wall just shy of six feet tall
               G
Too strong to fall


Chorus :
 C          G   Am            Em
Child it's time to break the shell
 F            Em            F           G
Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt
        C             G        Am        Em
You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
F          Em   F         G         C
You cannot fly until you break the shell


Bridge :
F                        C
   Courage is not being hard
              Em
It's time to peel back all of the layers
    Am                              D
You put between who you're meant to be
            F
And who you are
                  Fm
And go be who you are


Verse :
Am               F                         G
   So much disappointment to finally understand
              C        G       Am
That there is no such thing as perfect

                 F                      G
Were all simply doing the best that we can
               C         G      Am    Em   F
And we have a choice to live or truly be alive
 G            C
This is your life

Chorus :
(C)         G   Am            Em
Child it's time to break the shell
 F            Em            F           G
Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt
        C             G        Am        Em
You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
F          Em   F         G         C
You cannot fly until you break the shell

(C)         G   Am            Em
Child it's time to break the shell
 F            Em            F           G
Life's gonna hurt but it's meant to be felt
        C             G        Am        Em
You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself
   F           Em  F        G          C
A bird cannot fly until it breaks the shell


Ending :
Am       G           C        G
Do with these words what you will
      F       G     D
It's time for us to be for real
 F          G           D        F
You'll be stuck on the ground until
Am           G         C
You finally break the shell