ALL USED UP Lyrics

I hope you save

Or hold nothing back of yourself

In this life

I hope you learn to let go

Let go until your heart and your palms

Are light and bare

Until you free your feet

And give birth to wings

Until your mind and spirit find peace

I hope you lay it all out

All of it

Everything

Everything you came with

Everything you now have

All you collected and accumulated

Learned and gathered

And became attached to carrying with you

Along your way

Those treasures you forgot you had

Buried somewhere inside

I hope you discover them again

One day

When something feels absent

And you're not sure where you are

I hope you leave them all here

Your light and your dark places

All that you are

All that you were

And have to give now

Leave them behind

For others to find

Here where our gifts

Are only given to us

To be given away

Just like your brilliant smile

It is of no worth to you

Until it is presented to another

Here where you are of most use

As was intended

Here where light begets light

And chases away shadows

By the time your wings

Take you beyond this place

I hope you have left nothing of your self

I hope you take nothing of your value with you

That you leave

Each and every one

Of your special little precious gems behind

That your soul floats lightly

In the knowing

That you gave

Much more than you took

I hope you rise

Filled abundantly

With all life gave you

But yet satisfyingly empty

Not a thing unseen

Unshared

Unsaid

Undiscovered

Or undone

When you leave

May it be with an empty cup

By such time

I hope you're all used up