Verse 1 Some nights the strong ones don’t feel strong at all they just know everybody’s watching so they don’t let themselves fall they keep the lights on for the others while their own begins to fade smiling through the pressure of the choices that they made ⸻ Verse 2 There’s a cost to being needed there’s a cost to standing tall people lean on you so slowly you barely feel the weight at all until your hands start shaking from holding too much pain trying to stop the flood outside while drowning in the rain ⸻ Pre-Chorus And nobody sees the wars inside your head they only see the shelter not the nights you wished you fled ⸻ Chorus That’s the weight we carry when we choose to stay when we hold each other up so nobody breaks away every wound every scar every soul we tried to save became a part of who we are ⸻ Verse 3 Some became addicted some disappeared in shame some lost faith in everything and never came back the same still we kept the table open still we left another chair because love is sometimes choosing to keep hoping they’ll be there ⸻ Pre-Chorus And every single failure every heartbreak we survived became another reason someone else stayed alive ⸻ Chorus That’s the weight we carry all the grief we cannot show all the dreams we buried quietly so somebody else could grow and the road gets long and the nights get cold but broken generations need somebody strong enough to hold ⸻ Bridge Maybe being human means your heart can break this way maybe real love isn’t weakness maybe it’s deciding still to stay not because you have no limits not because you never bleed but because somewhere somebody still depends upon your peace ⸻ Final Chorus That’s the weight we carry every name we can’t forget every person we still wonder if we somehow could have kept still we rise each morning still we answer when they call because the strongest souls among us are the ones who still feel it all ⸻ Outro Some nights the strong ones need shelter too
