Heaviest Weight

verse 1

Some nights I lie awake

with the past pressed to my chest,

every heartbeat pulling shadows

from the corners I thought I’d swept.

People say time is a healer,

but they don’t know what it’s like

to carry every moment

that ever cut you like a knife.

chorus

’Cause the heaviest weight to bear

is a heart that remembers too much.

Every joy, every bruise, every whisper,

every loss you still ache to touch.

You can run, you can pray, you can bury the pain,

but memory won’t loosen its clutch.

Yeah, the heaviest weight to bear

is a heart that remembers too much.

verse 2

I’ve tried to lay it down

like a suitcase by the door,

but the minute I walk forward

it’s already there once more.

Faces rise like ghosts

in the quiet of the dawn,

and I’m stitched to every story

of the ones I’ve loved and lost.

chorus

’Cause the heaviest weight to bear

is a heart that remembers too much.

Every joy, every bruise, every whisper,

every loss you still ache to touch.

You can run, you can pray, you can bury the pain,

but memory won’t loosen its clutch.

Yeah, the heaviest weight to bear

is a heart that remembers too much.

bridge

But maybe there’s a mercy

in the way the heart holds on,

a tenderness in keeping

every soul that made us strong.

Maybe love is just the echo

that refuses to let go,

a reminder in the darkness

of the light we used to know.

final chorus

Still the heaviest weight to bear

is a heart that remembers too much.

Every joy, every bruise, every whisper,

every loss you still ache to touch.

But I’ll carry it all, every rise, every fall,

every scar that taught me love.

Yeah, the heaviest weight to bear

is a heart that remembers too much.