The Things I've Gone And Done - Carrie Newcomer

Take down your defenses

Like you’ve taken off your clothes

It’s such a glorious insurrection

Not to hold your secrets close

What’s the use in counting errors

Or the help in counting sheep

I don’t intend to live my whole life out

Just to find I was asleep

It’s not the things I’ve gone and done, I’ll regret or be ashamed

But the things I did not say or do, just because I was afraid.

How mysterious and wondrous

The strange circling of the mind

And that I can see as far ahead of me As I can see behind

Hindsight is always 20/20

Yet, we’ll see what we want see

And I used to pray for wisdomp

Now I know just what that means

It’s not the things I’ve gone and done, I’ll regret or be ashamed

But the things I did not say or do, just because I was afraid.

I’m learning to forgive

And I relearn it everyday

Every time I stoop to gather stones

I Straighten up and walk away.

I don’t have another message

I don’t have anything to sell

And there are no easy answers

As far as I can tell

But I don’t believe that Jesus was crazy

Or that it is Mohammad’s fault

When something good can get so twisted

Till there’s no semblance at all

It’s not the things I’ve gone and done, I’ll regret or be ashamed

But the things I did not say or do, just because I was afraid.

Just because the odds are bad

Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t risk

Don’t believe it will not happen

Just because it hasn’t happen yet