Beauty In The Broken Lyrics

A cattle trough filled with straw

Became your royal bed

Starlight on a winter's night

Crowned your tiny head

Animals and shepherds watched

As you fell asleep

And all of heaven gathered in

To bow before a King

You didn't choose the perfect

You didn't choose the clean

Just beneath the surface

Things weren't as they seemed

'Cause all at once the simple

Became a grand cathedral

And nothing else would ever be the same

There was beauty in the broken

The moment you came

A father closed his eyes to pray

And took his daughter's hand

They'd had a year of trials and tears

They'd never understand

But at a Christmas table

Where little was enough

The two of them gave thanks again

For a Savior and his love

You didn't choose the perfect

You didn't choose the clean

Just beneath the surface

Things weren't as they seemed

'Cause all at once the simple

Became a grand cathedral

And nothing else would ever be the same

There was beauty in the broken

The moment you came

We are sinners and saints

Who have all made mistakes

But you see us and you know us

And you love us all the same

We come helpless and hopeless

We come lost to be found

And here beside the manger

We bow, we bow

You don't choose the perfect

You don't choose the clean

Just beneath the surface

We aren't as we seem

'Cause all at once the simple

Becomes a grand cathedral

And nothing else will ever be the same (no)

You don't choose the perfect

You don't choose the clean

Just beneath the surface

We aren't as we seem

'Cause all at once the simple

Becomes a grand cathedral

And nothing else will ever be the same

There was beauty in the broken

The moment you came