[Verse 1] You wear it like a coat that nobody can see, smile at the table, say I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm free, but there's a room in your chest with the door held shut, and you've carried it so long you forgot it was too much. Nobody claps for the weight you don't show, the battles that you win where the whole world never knows; you learned to hold your breath, you learned to hold the line, you learned to be the strong one 'til it wore you to the bone. [Pre-Chorus] But strong ain't never falling — that's a lie they let you keep, strong is when you're breaking and you let somebody see. [Chorus] You can set it down, you can set it down, you don't have to hold the sky up all alone right now; lay the armor in the grass, let your shoulders find the ground — you were never meant to carry it, you can set it down. The bravest thing you'll ever do ain't lifting, it's the letting, the loosening of the grip on all the weight you keep forgetting you were never asked to carry — so lay it in the ground, you can breathe now, you can rest now, you can set it down. [Verse 2] There's a strength in the softness that the hard men never find, the courage to admit that you've been drowning inside; the mask gets so heavy that it weighs more than the pain, and the loneliest thing in the world is being seen and still feeling strange. But then somebody looks at you and doesn't look away, sees the thing you buried and they hold it anyway — and something in you crumbles that's been rigid for years, and it don't feel like weakness when it's falling into tears. [Chorus] You can set it down, you can set it down, you don't have to hold the sky up all alone right now; lay the armor in the grass, let your shoulders find the ground — you were never meant to carry it, you can set it down. The bravest thing you'll ever do ain't lifting, it's the letting, the loosening of the grip on all the weight you keep forgetting you were never asked to carry — so lay it in the ground, you can breathe now, you can rest now, you can set it down. [Bridge] You don't owe the world a face that never cracks, you don't have to earn the right to just lie down on your back and watch the sky do nothing, ask nothing, take nothing from you — the weight was never proof of love, it was just proof you were true. So put it in the dirt where the seeds go to grow, the heaviest things you plant are the tallest things that show; you been holding on so tightly to the parts that made you bleed — open up your hands now. Let it go. Let it be. [Chorus] You can set it down, you can set it down, you don't have to hold the sky up all alone right now; lay the armor in the grass, let your shoulders find the ground — you were never meant to carry it, you can set it down. The bravest thing you'll ever do ain't lifting, it's the letting, the loosening of the grip on all the weight you keep forgetting you were never asked to carry — so lay it in the ground, you can breathe now, you can rest now, you can set it down. [Outro] You can set it down. You can set it down. Everything you carried, everyone you were — you can set it down.
