The Weight We Carry

[Intro] [Clean electric guitar, distant slide guitar, restrained drums. No vocal before the first verse] [Verse] There's still a place beside me When I sit down at the table Sometimes I turn to tell you something Then remember that I can't There's a picture by the doorway That I haven't moved an inch And some days I swear I see you When the sunlight starts to shift I've walked around these memories Like they're landmines in the floor Afraid that if I touch one I'll be right back where I was before But I've learned that missing someone Doesn't mean you have to drown Sometimes love is just the weight That keeps your feet upon the ground [Pre-Chorus] And I don't have to lose you Just because I carry on Some things never leave us Even though they're finally gone [Chorus] I carry the weight I carry the love I carry the memories Of everything we were I carry the pain I carry the scars You're not gone from me You're right here in my heart I carry the weight I carry the love And I'll carry you with me Wherever I go [Verse] I still make that old coffee The way you showed me how And I catch myself laughing At the things you'd laugh about I tell the same old stories Though I've told them all before And sometimes there's a silence Then somebody laughs some more I found one of your old jackets Hanging lonely by the door And instead of putting it away I wore it out once more There's a thousand little pieces Of the life we built together And I've finally stopped believing That moving on means leaving them behind forever [Pre-Chorus] No, I don't have to lose you Just because the days move on Some things never leave us Even when they're finally gone [Chorus] I carry the weight I carry the love I carry the memories Of everything we were I carry the pain I carry the scars You're not gone from me You're right here in my heart I carry the weight I carry the love And I'll carry you with me Wherever I go [Bridge] Maybe grief ain't something That I'm ever gonna beat Maybe it's the proof of love That refuses to retreat So I'll take the good beside the bad The laughter with the tears I'll carry every mile we had For the rest of all my years And when the road gets heavy I'll remember what you gave You taught me how to keep on walking Even when I'm afraid [Verse] So tomorrow I'll keep moving There's still work left to do There's still miles left on this highway And a sky I haven't seen with you I'll sit down with old friends I'll raise a glass and say your name And I smile when I remember I won't be burdened by the pain 'Cause loving you was never meant To be a sentence I survive It was every damn reason That I was lucky to be alive And someday when my road is finished And I've taken my last breath I'll bring every memory with me But until then— I've still got miles left. [Final Pre Chorus] And I don't have to lose you Just because I'm moving on I'll take you with me forever I'll leave you right inside my heart [Final Chorus] I carry the weight I carry the love I carry the memories Of everything we were I carry the pain I carry the scars You're not gone from me You're right here in my heart I carry the weight I carry the love And I'll carry you with me Wherever I go [Outro- band fades out]