Carry My Own Voice

Intro

Yeah

Mm

Verse 1

Carried your echo so long

Thought it kept me safe somehow

Every door I knocked on

Had your face behind it now

Asked me nice to stand in line

Asked me soft to walk behind

All those years I gave my spine

Now that weight is mine to find

Pre-Chorus

Stop asking who forgives me

Stop asking who allows

Chorus

The day I stop needing permission

Is the day I start to burn

Watch me take the chain I carried

And watch me watch it turn

Drop

Can't hold me can't hold me

Can't hold me can't hold me down

Verse 2

Their voices stacked like quiet walls

I built them brick by borrowed brick

One crack where my own name falls

Suddenly the whole thing slips

I don't need their little nod

I don't need their crossed-out plan

Danger's just a different god

One that answers when I stand

Pre-Chorus

Stop singing what they taught me

Stop walking on their ground

Chorus

The day I stop needing permission

Is the day I start to burn

Watch me take the chain I carried

And watch me watch it turn

Drop

Can't hold me can't hold me

Can't hold me can't hold me down

Bridge

Whose voice is that I'm chasing

Who told me I was borrowed

I'm done being their mirror

I'm the loudest I know now

Chorus

The day I stop needing permission

Is the day I start to burn

Watch me take the chain I carried

And watch me watch it turn