Intro Yeah Funny how a dream feel light Till you finally hold it in your hands Then all at once it got weight Got faces Got prayers Got history in it Verse 1 Used to think a name was just somethin’ you wore On the back of a jersey when the crowd wanted more Used to think them stars and the shine was the prize Till I felt all the eyes that come with the rise Now I got mama in my heartbeat, Vegas in my frame Got Oklahoma in my chest and a fire in my name Got coaches in my corner, got ghosts in the wall Got little kids watchin’ every time I touch the ball That’s beautiful and brutal That’s blessing and strain ‘Cause love sound real sweet till you shoulder the name Till you realize all that faith got a pulse and a cost And one bad step can make you feel all that trust get lost I ain’t scared of the pressure But I’d be lyin’ if I said I ain’t felt it late at night sittin’ heavy in my head Like what if I ain’t enough for the weight that I chose? What if the road I prayed for ask more than I know? Pre-Chorus Yeah, that’s when the room get quiet And the truth talk plain It ain’t hard to wear it proud It’s hard to shoulder the name When the lights go dark And the crowd all fade You find out what kind of man Can shoulder the name Chorus Shoulder the name That’s the job now Not just wear it in the light But carry it through the doubt Through the bruises and the long nights Through the fear and the pain It ain’t enough to say you want it You gotta shoulder the name Shoulder the name With your back bent but strong With your soul locked in When the road get long From Sin City scars To that crimson flame I ain’t runnin’ from it I’ma shoulder the name Verse 2 Ashley still remind me I’m more than a role More than a helmet and a goal-line soul She got that way of makin’ all the noise fall thin Like for a second I can breathe and just be me again But even love can’t lift what a man gotta bear It can help him stay warm, but he still gotta wear That pressure in the morning, that standard in the drill That old-school Oklahoma “show me what you will” And I think about the kid I was back in Vegas heat Tape on my wrists, dreamin’ big in the street He wanted all the glory, all the shine, all the fame Would he still want this if he knew the weight of the name? I think he would Yeah, I think he’d grin Say “if it costs your comfort, then that’s where it begin” And that right there keep me from foldin’ in the strain ‘Cause I didn’t come this far to drop what I begged for in the rain Pre-Chorus Yeah, that’s when the room get quiet And the truth talk plain It ain’t hard to wear it proud It’s hard to shoulder the name When the lights go dark And the crowd all fade You find out what kind of man Can shoulder the name Chorus Shoulder the name That’s the job now Not just wear it in the light But carry it through the doubt Through the bruises and the long nights Through the fear and the pain It ain’t enough to say you want it You gotta shoulder the name Shoulder the name With your back bent but strong With your soul locked in When the road get long From Sin City scars To that crimson flame I ain’t runnin’ from it I’ma shoulder the name Bridge Let it press Let it burn Let it teach me what I still gotta learn I ain’t ask for easy I asked for real And real come heavy when the dream got steel So if I gotta carry Then I carry it right With both hands on the future And my jaw locked tight ‘Cause some names get printed And some names get claimed But the ones that last forever Get shouldered through pain Breakdown Yeah Phone glow bright Locker room still Whole world sleepin’ while I wrestle with the will No crowd, no noise No one to explain Just me and that weight Tryna shoulder the name Final Chorus Shoulder the name That’s the job now Not just wear it in the light But carry it through the doubt Through the bruises and the long nights Through the fear and the pain It ain’t enough to say you want it You gotta shoulder the name Shoulder the name With your back bent but strong With your soul locked in When the road get long From Sin City scars To that crimson flame I ain’t runnin’ from it I’ma shoulder the name Outro Yeah Dreams look different When they stop bein’ far away They get heavier Realer Sharper And maybe that’s the whole point Maybe forever ain’t somethin’ you wear Maybe it’s somethin’ you shoulder
