Forgiveness' Embrace - Orchestral Version

I have served a full life sentence
As a prisoner of my past
As a victim of a victim of a victim
Seems my parents' parents' parents
Left traps that held me fast
And they still catch me
Even when I think I've licked 'em

Well I have blamed them, I have fought them
But I never understood
All they really did was did the best they could

Is there a way to rise above if I look at them with love?
Though I look at them with full honest in the face?
Can I make my peace at last with the pieces of my past?
And enfold them in forgiveness' embrace?
And enfold them in forgiveness' embrace

I forgive my poor flawed parents for the things, they could not be
I forgive my valiant lovers for not completing me
And the hardest thing of all now
I forgive myself the sin of not being all I planned
And all I thought I should have been

But there's an alchemy in time
Transforms each grief and loss and scar
Into the precious stuff of who we are

And there's a way to rise above, if I look at them with love
Though I don't deny that harm has taken place
I can make my peace at last with the pieces of my past
And enfold them in forgiveness' embrace

Some call it wisdom and some just call it grace
When we make our peace at last with the pieces of the past (pieces of the past)
And enfold them in forgiveness' embrace
And enfold them (enfold them)
I will enfold them ('fold them)
Now I enfold them in forgiveness' embrace (ooh, ooh, ooh)
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh