Carried

[Intro] (whispered over minor piano, single notes) There's a stretch of road I don't remember walking… 'cause I wasn't walking… I was carried… [Hook] There's a year of my life I don't remember at all, just remember that I fell — I don't remember the fall 'Cause my feet stopped moving but I still made it through — I was carried, I was carried Couldn't crawl another inch, couldn't lift up my head, should've died out in the dark but I'm somehow here instead — I was carried, oh, I was carried [Verse 1] Look back at the road and there's a piece that don't add up, miles I couldn't walk on a body that gave up I was face-down at the bottom with the gravel in my teeth, nothing left to stand on and no ground beneath And I swore that I was finished, swore I'd never see the sun, swore the dark had finally won and there was nowhere left to run — but I woke up on the far side of a desert I can't cross, so somebody had to bring me through the worst of all my loss [Pre-Hook] Look down at the tracks and there's only one set, right there where I was certain I'd go under in the wet — so the steps that I don't remember… somebody walked 'em for me [Hook] There's a year of my life I don't remember at all, just remember that I fell — I don't remember the fall 'Cause my feet stopped moving but I still made it through — I was carried, I was carried Couldn't crawl another inch, couldn't lift up my head, should've died out in the dark but I'm somehow here instead — I was carried, oh, I was carried [Verse 2] I been thinking 'bout the nights I had no right to survive, the bottom of the bottom where I barely stayed alive The version of me sinking that I swore would never rise, the dark I kept on chasing with the lie behind my eyes And I used to call it luck, used to call it just the odds, used to swear that no one steered me safe back through the fog — but the math don't work, no, the numbers don't agree: something had to carry what was left of me [Pre-Hook] Look down at the tracks and there's only one set, right there where I was certain I'd go under in the wet — so the steps that I don't remember… somebody walked 'em for me [Bridge] (choir, half-time, building) I couldn't walk (couldn't walk) So You moved (so You moved) Picked me up out of a dark that I never would've left I couldn't walk (couldn't walk), couldn't stand — so the road that almost ended me, You held me in Your hand (carried me… carried me…) [Verse 3] (energy lifts, hope breaks through) Now I stand on these two feet and I don't take it light, 'cause I know they didn't carry me through every kind of night I'm awake now, I'm alive now, and I feel it in my chest — the weight of being someone who lived past their own worst So if you're crawling in the dark and you can't go no more, if your legs gave out behind you and you're broken on the floor — just stop counting all your steps, let the carrying begin: you don't gotta walk it, you just gotta let it in [Final Hook] (full belt + choir + runs) There's a year of my life I don't remember at all — but I'm standing here to tell you that I lived through it all 'Cause my feet stopped moving and I still made it through — I was carried, I was carried Couldn't crawl another inch, couldn't lift up my head, should've died out in the dark but I'm gloriously here instead — I was carried, oh, I was carried [Outro] (choir fades under reverb, organ holds, vocal soft) I don't remember walking… 'cause I wasn't walking… You carried me… You carried me…