**Title:** The Beauty of Life [Intro – warm, reflective, slightly weary] Life doesn’t ask for permission… It just arrives. [Verse 1] It wakes you with a kiss and slaps you in the same day Gives you a love you thought was impossible then rips it away without warning Makes you feel immortal at twenty and fragile like glass at forty It’s sweet and cruel, generous and a thief It gives you everything then reminds you how fragile everything is [Verse 2] It makes you laugh until you cry and cry until you have no tears left It teaches you how to walk then knocks you down to see if you can get back up It’s made of beautiful beginnings and sudden endings Of “forever” that lasts only two seasons Of moments that are worth an entire lifetime and years that pass without leaving a trace [Pre-Chorus] The more you live it, the harder it is to understand [Chorus] Brutal beauty, grace in the violent It’s wound and healing, loss and gift It’s perfect chaos and apparent order It’s the most unfair and fairest thing that exists Brutal beauty, grace in the violent Brutal beauty, grace in the violent Brutal beauty… Grace in the violent… [Verse 3] It makes you fall in love with the world then shows you how ugly it can be It makes you feel alone in a crowd of millions and then makes you feel alive with one single touch It’s slow when you want to run and lightning fast when you want to stop it It’s a cruel teacher and a loving mother in the exact same moment [Bridge – spoken, calm and deep] And despite all of this… no one has ever found the courage to refuse it. [Final Chorus – big, emotional, wide] Brutal beauty, grace in the violent It’s pain that gives birth to joy It’s darkness that delivers light It’s the hardest and most beautiful thing we’ve been given Brutal beauty, grace in the violent Brutal beauty, grace in the violent Brutal beauty, grace in the violent And it is... **It's brutal, it's beautiful, it's violent grace.** [Outro – soft, almost whispered] And we keep living it… Just like this.
