Seventeen Winters

Intro

Mm

Mm-hmm

Seventeen winters on my shoulders

Still counting

Verse 1

Mama sells fabric by the roadside

I learned to fold my worry small

The rain hits tin and I pretend I'm sleeping

Dreaming of a door that doesn't creak

School shoes thin as paper now

I bite my tongue and smile for the class photo

They want a boy who never asks for much

I want a boy who never has to ask

Pre-Chorus

So I write my name on the ceiling

So I write my name

Just to prove I'm still here

Just to prove I'm still

Chorus

I'm gonna carry this town on my back

Carry it quiet carry it far

I'm gonna carry this town on my back

Till the map runs out of stars

And if I fall don't call me back

Don't call me

I'm gonna carry this town on my back

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh

Carry it far

Oh-oh

Carry it far

Verse 2

My cousin left for the coast at nineteen

Sends us money sends us silence

I count the cracks in the painted window

Some nights I'm brave some nights I'm only

Seventeen and heavier than stone

But I don't say that out loud

I keep it tucked behind my ribs

A little fire nobody found

Pre-Chorus

So I write my name on the ceiling

So I write my name

Just to prove I'm still here

Just to prove I'm still

Chorus

I'm gonna carry this town on my back

Carry it quiet carry it far

I'm gonna carry this town on my back

Till the map runs out of stars

And if I fall don't call me back

Don't call me

I'm gonna carry this town on my back

Bridge

If I make it will they know my face

If I make it will I still know theirs

If I make it will I still know mine

Will I still know mine

Chorus

I'm gonna carry this town on my back

Carry it quiet carry it far

I'm gonna carry this town on my back

Till the map runs out of stars

And if I fall don't call me back

Don't call me

I'm gonna carry this town on my back

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh

Carry it far

Oh-oh

Carry it far

Outro

Mm

Seventeen winters

Still counting