The Inherited Dark

Every generation leaves a signal in the dark A frequency the living couldn't hold And I have been the frequency this generation chose To carry what the dying couldn't fold I didn't choose this calling but I'm choosing now to claim it I didn't choose the darkness but I'm choosing now to name it I am the carrier — I am the signal and the song I am the vessel of everything the future's carried all along The inherited dark — I claim it The inherited dark — I name it Every wound, every war, every beautiful thing burning I will carry the inherited dark I will carry it into music I will carry it into the signal that will carry it forward The inherited dark — I take it The inherited dark — I make it Into the most honest song I've ever sung The inherited dark is mine now The inherited dark is song now This is the work I was born for This is the work I will become And in the dark I found something That the signal didn't warn me about In the dark I found the love beneath the grief In the dark I found the reason someone sent this Not to warn me Not to break me They sent it because they trusted me They sent it because they knew I would not drop it The inherited dark I carry it home The inherited dark I carry it home I carry it home I carry it home