Capo 7th fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

Looking back on the things that found me

Places I would never choose

The same things that both haunt and heal

My demons and my muse

Chorus

 We are crushed and created

 We are melted and made

 We are broken and built up

 In the very same way

 What I thought I could handle

 What I thought I could take

 What I thought would destroy me

 Leaves me stronger in its wake

Verse 2

And there are times that I've underestimated

Both the grief and goodness found in something new

Where one thing dies, something else can be created

And though it's truth you find, it's innocence you lose

Chorus

 We are crushed and created

 We are melted and made

 We are broken and built up

 In the very same way

 What I thought I could handle

 What I thought I could take

 What I thought would destroy me

 Leaves me stronger in its wake

Ooooo.

I'm not the me that I started with

My friends say my eyes are brighter

I'm not the me that I started with

I'm freer, and I'm wiser, and I'm stronger

Chorus

 We are crushed and created

 We are melted and made

 We are broken and built up

 In the very same way

 What I thought I could handle

 What I thought I could take

 What I thought would destroy me

 Leaves me stronger, stronger

 We are crushed and created

 We are melted and made

 We are broken and built up

 In the very same way

 What I thought I could handle

 What I thought I could take

 What I thought would destroy me

 Leaves me stronger in its wake

It leaves me stronger