[INTRO] There are things that shaped you Before you had language for the shaping People Places Moments that didn't announce themselves As the ones that would matter most This is for those [VERSE 1] There was a person Who laughed at something small In a specific way That taught you Laughter was allowed In the particular register You had been keeping quiet There was a room Where the light came in at an angle That only existed For twenty minutes in the afternoon And you learned without knowing you were learning That beauty is often A window And a specific time of day And nothing more complicated Than that There was a song You didn't choose That chose you anyway In a car Or a kitchen Or the specific silence After something hard That taught you music Was not decoration It was the structure Holding the walls up [Pre Chorus] EVERYTHING THAT MADE ME EVERYTHING THAT MADE ME (Everything that made me) [CHORUS] (Everything that made me) Everything that held me up When I didn't know I was falling (Everything that made me) Every hand I didn't see That steadied what was leaning Every word that landed In the right silence Every room that held me Long enough To learn what held felt like EVERYTHING THAT MADE ME (Everything that made me) [Bridge] I carry it all forward I carry it all forward Into everything I am (Ohhh...) (Carry it forward...) (Carry it forward...) [Verse 2] I think about the people Who shaped me Without knowing they were shaping me The ones who will never know What a specific afternoon cost me Or gave me I think about the version of me That existed before all of it Unformed Unwritten And I am grateful For everything that wrote on me Even the hard things Especially the hard things Because the hard things Wrote in ink And everything else In pencil And I am mostly ink now And I am mostly What was written on me By things that didn't know...
