Amanda Marshall’s song “Everybody’s Got a Story” shares a great message about people and the dangers of judging books by its cover. We are all much more complex than meets the eye. Whether its the people we pass walking down the street, the neighbors we live near or the people we work with, we need to remember there is much more to them than we think.
With all the success of social networks this point become even more important. We must remember that there are living breathing human beings behind each and every one of those screen names and avatars. No matter how much they share online, there is always far more we don’t know about them in real life offline. We are much more than our tweets.
Everybody’s Got a Story
You walk up to me and say
“Feel like I know you baby”
And then take a sip of your cherry coke now
Now who drinks a cherry coke?
Maybe you’re nervous, I see that bead of sweat
Dancin’ on your cheek
Your words are like cheap champagne
I get the point but it’s much too sweet
I’m so tired of the dance
This carousel of superficial conversation
Gets me nowhere…
Chorus
So you can see my bra underneath my shirt
Watch the wind underneath my skirt
But that ain’t the picture it’s just a part
Everybody’s got a story that could break your heart
See my eyes, don’t see what I see
Touch my tongue, don’t know what tastes good to me
It’s the human condition that keeps us apart
Everybody’s got a story that could break your heart
Yeah everybody’s got a story that could break your heart
lalala lalana nanana nana na naaa
Verse
Now who can read the mind
Of the red-headed girl next door (mm)
Or the taxi driver who just dropped you off or the
Or the classmate that you ignore
Don’t assume everything on the surface is what you see
‘Cause that classmate just lost her mother
And that taxi-driver’s got a Ph.D
I’m so tired of the fear that
Weighs us down with wrong assumptions
Of broken hearts and natural function
Chorus
So you can see my bra underneath my shirt
Watch the wind underneath my skirt
But that ain’t the picture it’s just a part
Everybody’s got a story that could break your heart
See my eyes, don’t see what I see
Touch my tongue, don’t know what tastes good to me
It’s the human condition that keeps us apart
Everybody’s got a story that could break your heart
See my bra underneath my shirt
Watch the wind underneath my skirt
But that ain’t the picture it’s just a part
Everybody’s got a story that could break your heart (your heart)
Solo
lalalala lalala ladada da da da
Bridge
So dig deep (dig deep)
Deeper than the image that you see (dig deep)
Lift the vail and let your true self breathe (dig deep)
And show the world the beauty underneath (she kills this note, haha)
Chorus
See my bra underneath my shirt
Watch the wind underneath my skirt
But that ain’t the picture, it’s just a part
Everybody’s got a story that could break your heart
See my eyes, don’t see what I see
Touch my tongue, don’t know what tastes good to me
It’s the human condition that keeps us apart
Everybody’s got a story that could break your heart
See my bra underneath my shirt
Watch the wind underneath my skirt
But that ain’t the picture, it’s just a part
Everybody’s got a story that could break your heart
See my eyes, don’t see what I see
Touch my tongue, don’t know what tastes good to me
It’s the human condition that keeps us apart
Everybody’s got a story that could break your heart
Outro
That could break your heart baby
Everybody’s got a story, oh yeah
lalala nanana lala nanana
lalala nanana nanana….
