[Verse 1] Everybody's limping Nobody admits Every now and then it sits Like a stone behind the ribs Some nights I get ready With the hallway light off Head above the rising flood With the floodgates off [Pre-Chorus] Ooh, it's hard to get a foot on the floor When the morning feels like war And nothing seems to lead anywhere I hold my face like it might stay on Count to ten and then I'm gone And the room never knows I was there [Chorus] When it all sits on your shoulders And your own pulse is a weight you can't wear Yeah, I know that you're scared This is all that you get, my dear It's a bad day — it ain't the whole year [Verse 2] All my luck's inverted And I'm white-knuckling I build myself a shoreline And the hungry tide still wins Pinned up to the drywall Running out of skin Watching the old me thin In the glass again [Pre-Chorus] Oh, it's hard to disappear When the thing you fear lives here in the mirror You can burn the routes and ditch the car Still I meet myself in the dark I'm tired of drawing my own blood I don't want that war [Chorus] When it all sits on your shoulders And your own pulse is a weight you can't wear Yeah, I know that you're scared This is all that you get, my dear It's a bad day — it ain't the whole year [Bridge] And I know it feels like nothing gives And I know the drop-off feels one thought from here So I wrote you this to say It will not stay, my dear It's a bad day — it ain't the whole year [Final Chorus] When it all sits on your shoulders And your own pulse is a weight you can't wear Yeah, I know that you're scared This is all that you get, my dear It's a bad day — it ain't the whole year It's a bad day — it ain't the whole year It's a bad day — it ain't the whole year Things won't always feel this way Hold on through the fear It's a bad day — it ain't the whole year
