Nobody Wrote The Ending

[Intro]

Mm

Mm-hmm

Oh-oh

[Verse 1]

I found my childhood bound in red

Filled with all the words I left unsaid

A silver book of borrowed dreams

And torn-out chapters stitched between

The librarian wore my face

She led me to an empty space

A book lay open ink still wet

The only page they couldn't get

[Pre-Chorus]

I searched the index scanned the floor

Found every life I'd lived before

But where the record should have been

A blank stared back and swallowed me

[Chorus]

Nobody wrote the ending

Nobody carved it into stone

I've read a thousand ways to break

But none of them can tell me where to go

Let the pages fall around me

Let the binding split apart

Nobody wrote the ending

So I'll write it with my heart

[Post-Chorus]

Write it

Write it

With my heart

[Verse 2]

There's a version where I stayed

A version ruled by fear and shame

One where I apologized

For every truth I kept inside

One where I became the lie

One where I never even tried

They stacked my failures row by row

As if they were all I'd ever know

[Pre-Chorus]

The librarian said choose a page

Your future is a printed cage

I asked her who was holding the pen

She said the ones who came before you then

[Chorus]

Nobody wrote the ending

Nobody carved it into stone

I've read a thousand ways to break

But none of them can tell me where to go

Let the pages fall around me

Let the binding split apart

Nobody wrote the ending

So I'll write it with my heart

[Post-Chorus]

Write it

Write it

With my heart

[Bridge]

What if I fail

What if I fall

What if the silence

Says nothing at all

What if the story

Has no grand design

What if the next word

Is simply mine

[Build]

I don't need a prophecy

I don't need a guarantee

I don't need to know the cost

To take the road that hasn't crossed

These hands are shaking

Let them shake

This life is mine

To miswrite to make

[Final Chorus]

Nobody wrote the ending

No hand above me holds the pen

I'll make a thousand wrong beginnings

And start a thousand times again

Let the pages flood the hallway

Let the old words lose their hold

Nobody wrote the ending

I'm not doing what I'm told

[Final Refrain]

Nobody wrote the ending

Nobody gets to write it for me

If there's no final page waiting

Then there's no final word I'll be

[Outro]

The librarian left the door ajar

The shelves fell quiet near and far

I took the book beneath my arm

And wrote one word

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