Echo

[Verse 1] We get a hundred summers if the years are kind and stay, and most of us will sleepwalk through the middle of the day; scared to make a sound, scared to take up any space, tiptoein' through a life like we're apologizin' for the place. But I don't wanna whisper, I don't wanna fade to gray, I don't wanna be a name the world forgets in a day; I wanna hit this life so hard that the ringing never ends, be a sound that keeps on sounding long after it descends. [Pre-Chorus] 'Cause you only get one throw, one arc across the black — so throw it like it matters, 'cause it's never coming back. [Chorus] Be an echo, be an echo live so loud they can't erase you Be an echo, be an echo plant a thing that outlives you Leave a light still burning in a room you'll never get to Be an echo, be an echo let the dark remember you [Verse 2] It ain't about the statues, it ain't about the fame, half the loudest echoes never even kept a name; it's the kid you gave a chance to, it's the words you didn't swallow, it's the hand you held in traffic that they're passing on tomorrow. Every life you ever touched is a stone you threw in water, and the ripples keep on going to a shore you'll never wander; so you don't have to be famous to be felt a thousand years — you just gotta throw the stone and trust the ripples that appear. [Pre-Chorus] 'Cause you only get one throw, one arc across the black — so throw it like it matters, 'cause it's never coming back. [Chorus] Be an echo, be an echo live so loud they can't erase you Be an echo, be an echo plant a thing that outlives you Leave a light still burning in a room you'll never get to Be an echo, be an echo let the dark remember you [Bridge] 'Cause we're all just passing through, we're all just borrowed time, a candle in a hurricane, a reason and a rhyme; but the flame ain't measured by how long it gets to burn, it's measured by the fires that it lit before its turn. So spend it, spend it all, don't you save a single spark, you don't take it with you, so you leave it as a mark — and when they say your name someday and you're not around to hear, let the whole room go quiet 'cause the echo's still that clear. [Final Chorus] Be an echo, be an echo live so loud they can't erase you Be an echo, be an echo plant a thing that outlives you Leave a light still burning in a room you'll never get to Be an echo, be an echo let the dark remember you [Outro] Be an echo Long after you're gone — be an echo Live so it rings on