Carry Me

Also released as: Remix

Intro

Verse 1

I was born to a mother who didn't choose me
Signed away to strangers from the start
Then the ones I learned to call my own let go
And they took my children with my heart
There's no stone that bears their names
No grave to lay a flower on
How do you grieve the ones still breathing
Who decided you were gone

Verse 2

Then I married into kindness I had never known
A table with a chair already set
No one asked me where I came from
Just how I'd been, and had I eaten yet

Chorus

And they carry me
When I can't carry on
They carry all that's left of my life
When everything else is gone
Not by blood, but by choosing
Every single day
They carry me
And they won't walk away

Verse 3

I went looking for my blood when the doctors needed answers
Saw my own eyes in a stranger's face
Then I lost them almost faster than I found them
Just my father and one sibling hold that place

Pre-Chorus

Now there are stones that bear their names
And I lay the flowers down
I found my blood just long enough
To lose it to the ground

Chorus

And they carry me
When I can't carry on
They carry all that's left of my life
When everything else is gone
Not by blood, but by choosing
Every single day
They carry me
And they won't walk away

Bridge

If they ask me who my people are
I won't answer them with blood
I'll name every one of you
Who stayed, and called it love
'Cause I was never chosen
Not once, not by my own
Till you gathered up my pieces
And you carried me home

Chorus

And you carry me
When I can't carry on
You carry all that's left of my life
When everything else is gone
Not by blood, but by choosing
Every single day
You carry me
And you never walk away

Outro

You carry me
You carry me
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