The Weight of the World Verse 1 How does that little person Inside your chest feel now? With all that weight upon his shoulders And the pressure you allow? How long can you keep carrying A standard without end? How long can you keep breaking Just to keep from breaking them? You tell yourself to trudge on You tell yourself you’re strong You carry what was never yours And wonder where you went wrong Chorus You don’t have to carry The weight of the world You don’t have to bleed Just to prove you’re a man That little boy inside you Still knows who you are Put the weight down Before it breaks your heart You don’t have to trudge You don’t have to crawl You don’t have to carry Everybody at all Verse 2 I watch some men around me Accept what they don’t deserve They stay beside the venom While they’re slowly losing nerve She strikes him like a serpent Then tells him he’s the blame And somehow he keeps standing there And playing out the game I recognize the pattern Because I wore it on my skin I took abuse for years And called endurance discipline I wrote it down in black and white I knew exactly what was there And still I kept on trudging Like suffering was something noble Like suffering was something fair Chorus You don’t have to carry The weight of the world You don’t have to bleed Just to prove you’re a man That little boy inside you Still knows who you are Put the weight down Before it breaks your heart You don’t have to trudge You don’t have to crawl You don’t have to carry Everybody at all Verse 3 Somewhere when I was younger I learned to shoulder everything Be useful Be quiet Be strong Don’t need a thing Carry everybody’s sorrow Keep the whole damn house intact And if somebody hurts you Just keep moving Don’t look back But living isn’t trudging And surviving isn’t life And carrying another person’s chaos Doesn’t make you good or right Sometimes you have to disappear Far enough to hear your name Without somebody else’s voice Telling you who you should become Bridge Solitude Is where you meet yourself Not punishment Not running Not hiding Just enough silence To hear what’s underneath The boy The man The weight The wound And finally ask “Was this ever mine?” Final Chorus You don’t have to carry The weight of the world You don’t have to bleed Just to prove you’re a man That little boy inside you Still knows who you are Put the weight down Come back to your heart You don’t have to trudge You don’t have to crawl You don’t have to carry Everybody at all Outro Living isn’t trudging Love isn’t suffering Strength isn’t carrying What was never yours Put it down Walk away Find yourself And live.
