I carried things I never asked to hold Passed down quiet, passed down cold Nobody taught me it could be different 'Til I decided I was done bein' bent I looked back at the road that made me And I said, "no further, you don't get to take meโ€”" It ends here, it ends with me I'm the last link in a broken chain, finally free Whatever they carried, whatever they gave I won't hand it down to another name It ends here I used to think this was just how it goes Same old wounds nobody ever shows But I got tired of carryin' what wasn't mine So I'm layin' it down, one final time I looked back at the road that made me And I said, "no further, you don't get to take meโ€”" It ends here, it ends with me I'm the last link in a broken chain, finally free Whatever they carried, whatever they gave I won't hand it down to another name It ends here I forgive the hands that didn't know better But I won't repeat the letter This is where the story turns This is where the old ground burns The past can tell me where I came from But it doesn't get to tell me where I go It ends here, it ends with me I'm the last link in a broken chain, finally free Whatever they carried, whatever they gave I won't hand it down to another name It ends here, it ends here It ends here Not one more. Not one more. It ends here.