Borrowed Bones

Verse 1 You walk in wearing pieces Of a life you never earned Talking like a prophet With a gospel you just heard You copy every shadow Then you call it your own light But you don’t know the cost Of what it took to survive You want somebody’s fire But you won’t face the cold You want the holy water But you won’t cleanse your soul Always reaching for a hand That’s already bruised and bleeding How you gonna drain the living Then complain that you’re not healing? Pre-Chorus Get off the backs of the broken Stop dancing in their wounds You can’t steal someone’s spirit And call that finding you Verse 2 You want the rhythm, not the practice Want the harvest, not the seed Want the wisdom from the ashes But you never learned to grieve You sit there watching warriors Dragging themselves through hell Then copy how they stand back up Like you survived it yourself Discipline ain’t pretty It don’t clap when you arrive It’s lonely in the mirror When you’re learning how to fight But that’s where you meet your maker That’s where your name gets born Not hanging off a survivor Like a vulture in a storm Pre-Chorus Get off the backs of the broken Stop drinking what they bled You can’t become somebody By living in their head Chorus Get off your ass, find your spine Build your truth one brick at a time Stop wearing faces like borrowed clothes Stop sucking souls from tired bones Believe in something, bleed for something Do the work, stop wanting the crown You can’t ride another person’s road And call it your own way out Bridge Who are you when nobody’s watching? Who are you with no one to steal? Who are you without a mirror Made of someone else’s will? Go dig your roots in silence Go earn the ground you claim Go learn what faith feels like When nobody knows your name Final Chorus Get off your ass, find your spine Build your truth one brick at a time Stop wearing faces like borrowed clothes Stop sucking souls from tired bones Believe in something, bleed for something Do the work, stop chasing clout You can’t ride another person’s road And call it your own way out Outro Borrowed bones don’t make a body Stolen fire won’t make you whole Go find your name in the darkness And stop feeding on my soul