[Intro] To everyone who needs me— No. To everyone who built their week Around the fact that I would come— I quit. [Verse 1] I quit the calls before the sunrise Quit the rides across the town Quit arriving with the groceries When somebody lets you down Quit the forms and medications Quit remembering every date Quit repairing every crisis That you noticed much too late Here’s the mileage Here’s the food Here’s the tire I wore through Here’s the overdraft that closed the bank account I used to keep on helping you Into the bag All of it What’s the fucking point? [Chorus] I quit the job that didn’t exist The one you never gave a name You never hired me You couldn’t pay me Still, you needed me the same If everything falls when I step back Then everything I did was work You don’t get to call it nothing While depending on its worth I quit the job that didn’t exist Watch me leave it vacant [Verse 2] I knew there wasn’t money That was why I never asked I knew the good we tried to serve Might not survive without the task So I gave the hours I could sell Spent the money meant for mine Kept your world above the water While my future missed its time Every tool I couldn’t purchase Every plan I couldn’t start My whole empire in a shopping cart While I gave away its parts I kept thinking when things settled There might still be time for me Things never settled They just learned That I would work for free [Chorus] I quit the job that didn’t exist The one you never gave a name You never hired me You couldn’t pay me Still, you needed me the same If everything falls when I step back Then everything I did was work You don’t get to call it nothing While depending on its worth I quit the job that didn’t exist You will have to feel the vacancy [Verse 3] I am not quitting love I am quitting being infrastructure Quitting every expectation Built from my surviving nature I am quitting being pleasant When another need appears Quitting “Yes, of course, I’ll handle it” Before I know if I am here Maybe I trained you to expect it Maybe you never meant to take But only one of us grew poorer Every time the system stayed Need can ask without a voice Love can answer till it’s gone Neither makes it right to build a world That only stands while I am drawn Out of my own [Bridge] Who am I If no one needs me? Who am I Without the phone? Who am I When every hour Is not already someone’s own? I don’t know That is the truth I kept beneath the evidence I know everything about keeping you alive I don’t know what I want yet So I’m throwing out the calendars The receipts, the lists, the proof Not because the work was worthless Because I disappeared into it too [Final Chorus] I quit the job that didn’t exist Effective immediately No final shift No one last rescue No emergency exception made for me If everything falls when I step back Then build it differently this time The greater good cannot keep requiring The quiet forfeiture of mine I quit the job that didn’t exist The bag is at the door I don’t know who I am without it That’s what the empty room is for [Outro] My hand reaches for the phone Stops Nobody else’s emergency Gets to tell me who I am My name is Rich I know how that sounds I don’t know what it means yet But for the first time The rest of the sentence Is mine
