Alex Boyé - Bend Not Break

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STREAM/DOWNLOAD BEND NOT BREAK HERE & SHARE WITH YOUR LOVED ONES.

Itunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1435186299?ls=1&app=itunes

Apple Music:
http://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1435186299

Singer/Songwriter Alex Boyé has partnered with Randy Jackson (American Idol) and the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention (asp.org) to write, produce, and distribute a world-wide suicide prevention music video "Bend Not Break",

My purpose for this video is to help save lives. Even if it can save just one, then we have done something great.
- Alex Boyé

Bend Not Break:
Written by: Jordan Powers & Alex Boyé
Produced By: J.C Knight
Executive Producer: Randy Jackson

Lyrics:

Bend Not Break (Lyrics)
Boye/Powers/Knight

Boye Central Music (BMI)

Before you go can I ask you a question?
When’s the last time you thought life’s worth living?
You may think there’s only one way out
Can’t see beyond the way you feel right now.

But if you just bend
And not break
If you just bend
And not break oh
At least not today
Ohhh

Olele olele eyo
Olele olele

I know that this permanence is tempting
Cuz even on a good day you feel empty
But Someone’s gonna miss you when you’re gone
There’s so much more to do if you hold on!

If you just bend
And not break
If you just bend
And not break
At least not today

Not today
Not today
Not today
At least not today
Not today
Not today
Not today
Hold on!

Cause you’ve got a mother
Got a sister
Got a brother
Got a father
Son and daughter in your life


If you just bend
And not break
If you just bend
And not break
At least not today

I can tell by the way you feel its hard to stay strong, in the midst of all this madness through the darkness please hold on yeah, won't you please hold on? "Hold on!!!

(Kids choir)

Cause you’ve got a mother
Got a sister
Got a brother
Got a father
Son and daughter in your life.

They’re living for you!!

Cause you’ve got a mother
Got a sister
Got a brother
Got a father
Son and daughter in your life.