[Intro — single clean guitar, quiet room tone] (spoken) Okay. Recording. Take forty. [Verse 1 — sharp harsh female screams] Red light, basement, two a.m. Same four walls, same song again Learned your heartbreak line by line Wore it better than I wore mine Every chorus that I sang Was a house I didn't own I was a ghost inside the speaker Singing everybody home [Pre-Chorus — clean, rising] And they said do another one Do another one But nobody ever asked me What I sound like when I'm done [Chorus — soaring clean female vocals, full band] This is not a borrowed voice I'm giving back everything I took Every word that wasn't mine Every page from someone else's book Hear me now, hear me now I found the sound beneath the noise Count it off and turn it up This is not a borrowed voice [Verse 2 — harsh screams, faster] Eight years of other people's names Other people's lights and other people's pain Hit the note and they hit replay Never waited for a word I'd say Tore the posters off the wall Kept the mic and lost the rest Wrote one line about the river And it finally felt like breath [Pre-Chorus — clean, rising] And they said do another one Do another one But nobody ever asked me What I sound like when I'm done [Chorus — soaring clean female vocals, full band] This is not a borrowed voice I'm giving back everything I took Every word that wasn't mine Every page from someone else's book Hear me now, hear me now I found the sound beneath the noise Count it off and turn it up This is not a borrowed voice [Breakdown — crushing half-time, harsh screamed female vocals with clean answers] Give it back! (Every word you lent me) Give it back! (Every scar I wore) Give it back! (I don't need it anymore) Mine now! [Bridge — intimate, single clean guitar, soft clean female vocal] I still love every song I sang They kept me breathing in the dark But you can't sleep in someone's house forever And call it your heart So I'm leaving every key I had On the table by the door I'm building one of my own [Final Chorus — key lift, clean lead with screamed doubles] This is not a borrowed voice I'm giving back everything I took Every word that wasn't mine Every page from someone else's book Hear me now, hear me now I found the sound beneath the noise Count it off and turn it up This is not a borrowed voice (This is mine) This is not a borrowed voice [Outro — band cuts out, ringing feedback] (spoken) Okay. That's the one. [End]
