The Broken Girl

I am the Broken Girl. I am going to put a song up here now, and I want you to pay very close attention to the lyrics. As the song goes on, I will insert comments, and I will have some final comments at the end. You can assume away about what it is talking about. I will only give you some clues about what it means to me. I would say enjoy, but it is a tear jerker of a song. First time I heard it, I cried. Here we go.

Look what he's done to you
It isn't fair
Your light was bright and new
But he didn't care
He took the heart of a little girl
And made it grow up too fast


- Ok, every time you see a dash, its me, Crystal talking again. I am going to take this whole stanza head on. Just in case you can't figure it out, this is talking about a man abusing a little girl, whatever that means to you. And it could mean all manner of abuse. The result is she grows up too fast. This is the story of my life, folks. I am the Broken Girl. -

Now words like "innocence"
Don't mean a thing
You hear the music play
But you can't sing
Those pictures in your mind
Keep you locked up inside your past

- When a girl, or any child is a abused, it wrecks their view of the world. They are no longer "innocent" little children, and in a real sense they are shackled to their past, with images of things they don't want to remember always flashing through their minds. I am the Broken Girl -


This is a song for the broken girl
The one pushed aside by the cold, cold world
You are
Hear me when I say
You're not the worthless they made you feel
There is a Love they can never steal away
And you don't have to stay the broken girl

- Now this is the chorus. So now you see why I picked this song to share with all of you. This song is for me. The world, in a real sense had pushed me aside and was cold and cruel. It made me feel like I had no value and was worthless. But the world, or anyone, can't steal the love of God away. And in the end, I don't have to stay the broken girl. Yet, still, I am the Broken Girl. -


Those damaged goods you see
In your reflection
Love sees them differently
Love sees perfection
A beautiful display
Of healing on the way tonight
Tonight

- For the longest time, when I saw myself in the mirror, all I saw was ugliness and someone who had nothing to offer. When I began to see myself through God's eyes, I saw how beautiful I am to Him. So you see, I may say I am conceited, but its really not that at all. It's really knowing how God sees me. I am the Broken Girl -


This is a song for the broken girl
The one pushed aside by the cold, cold world
You are
Hear me when I say
You're not the worthless they made you feel
There is a Love they can never steal away
And you don't have to stay the broken girl

- This is just the chorus again, and I already talked about this. I am the Broken Girl. -


Let your tears touch to the ground
Lay your shattered pieces down
And be amazed by how Grace can take a broken girl
And put her back together again

- I believe I am a shattered mess right now. But I believe God has already healed huge pieces of myself, and is in the process of putting this broken girl back together again. It may take into eternity to accomplish this. But I am willing to go through the process. And God is the master craftsman. He can make anything broken healed and beautiful once again. I am the Broken Girl. -


This is a song for the broken girl
The one pushed aside by the cold, cold world
You are
Hear me when I say
You're not the worthless they made you feel
There is a Love they can never steal away
And you don't have to stay the broken girl
You don't have to stay the broken girl 

- Again, this is just the chorus.  I am the Broken Girl -

Ok, so the song is over now. Why do I keep repeating that I am the broken girl? I need you all to understand that everything else, my whole life played out from a place of complete and utter brokenness. If God has used my life for anything up to this point, it is show others how they can, in the midst of great adversity and pain and  trial, always get back up on their feet and try to make things better again. I will never give up trying to improve myself. My life started out terrible and hard and tragic. But I don't have to finish that way. I can be all that God wants me to be, and so can you. Just more thoughts from the mind of Crystal.

by: Crystal Nylander