Dear God I have been trying awful hard to make You proud of me But it seems The harder that I try, all the harder it becomes And I feel like giving up Most of the time Dear God I have been chasing their approval and it is killing me And I know The more I try to prove All the less I have to show And I am stuck inside my head Most of the time But if I pray a little harder If I follow all the rules I wonder, could I ever be enough? Cause I try and try Just to fall back down again And I ask myself why Do I try to chase the wind? I should lean into the mystery Maybe hope is found in a melody So I wanna try again Oh, I am gonna try again And dear child I hope you know how much I love you and I am proud of you And please believe The thoughts I have for you will never change or fade away And when you felt like giving up I never did Cause I am not scared of imperfections Or the questions in your head Just know that you have always been enough Cause you tried and you tried And I saw you wrestle with Every how, every why I was right there listening So just fall into the mystery And I will meet you here in the melody Try, just to try again Oh, child would you try again? My child, you can love again