Carving On

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Verse 1

Learned the lines before I learned to speak

Smiled when the room said smile

Kept my voice a little small and neat

Walked their mile for a while

Pre-Chorus

But something scrapes the quiet

Something won't sit still

I hear it in the days I go through numb

Chorus

Whose life is this I'm living

Whose name am I trying on

I keep on giving giving

Till there's nothing left to pawn

Verse 2

I asked them once at the dinner table

Why does it have to be this way

They said you'll understand when you're able

Just do what you're told and stay

Pre-Chorus

That answer sits like gravel

Bitter on my tongue

I feel the fault lines starting to come

Chorus

Whose life is this I'm living

Whose name am I trying on

I keep on giving giving

Till there's nothing left to pawn

Bridge

I stood up with a voice not borrowed

Said I want to choose my own road

They called it selfish foolish hollow

Stitched my doubt up where the courage flowed

Guitar Solo

Verse 3

Guilt came knocking soft and heavy

Told me I was meant to bend

I almost turned back to the steady

Comfort of the script again

Pre-Chorus

But the cage was never golden

The door was always there

I'm done pretending I don't care

Chorus

This life is mine for taking

This name I'm carving on

No more giving giving giving

I'm not staying till I'm gone

Outro

I'm gone

I'm gone

I'm gone

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