Lyrics
What You Carry (Summer Session)
A stripped acoustic version — voice up front, sparse and warm — of the song about setting down old resentment and feeling the days grow lighter.
I used to carry it home
Every small thing
Every small thing left a mark
A look I read too closely
A silence gone too dark
Took it into every room
Every morning
Built the walls I never saw
And lived inside the gloom
Then something in me went still
Something let it pass
I set the small things down
Learned what wouldn't last
What you carry, you become
What you swallow gets louder
I can hear it now
And the days feel lighter somehow
What you carry, you become
So I lay the old weight down
Now when the anger climbs
I let it stand
Then I let it go
I don't pack it in my bag at night
I don't drag it through the door
Half of what I held against them
Wasn't theirs
And was never mine
So I speak it small, I speak it early
Before it hardens into time
What you carry, you become
What you swallow gets louder
I can hear it now
And the days feel lighter somehow
What you carry, you become
So I lay the old weight down
Stand in their shoes
Stand in their morning
Stand in the weight they never named
Half of what we call a fight
Is just people in the same rain
What you carry, you become
What you swallow gets louder
I can hear it now
And the days feel lighter somehow
What you carry, you become
So I lay the old weight down
What you carry, you become
What you carry, you become
What you carry
What you carry