awerysopelea - Borrowed Gravity

Lyrics

[Intro] I made it on my own. That’s what I used to say. [Verse 1] A cardboard box broke in the doorway, spilled my history down the hall: a spare key marked “Come home whenever,” your winter coat, still much too small. The note a teacher wrote at nineteen: “One lost year is not your name.” Every object had a fingerprint; none of them had asked for fame. [Pre-Chorus] I counted every mile I walked and called the distance mine. Never counted who left water at the edges of the climb. [Chorus] I called it strength, but it was borrowed gravity— all the quiet hands that kept the ground beneath me. I said I made it on my own like love would make me less. But every time I stood alone, I wasn’t standing by myself. [Verse 2] At two a.m. on kitchen tiles, I said, “Go home. I swear I’m fine.” You put the kettle on in silence: “Then let me waste a little time.” You didn’t fix the thing inside me, didn’t drag me toward the day. You just made the dark less empty till I found my feet again. [Pre-Chorus] No, you never walked it for me. I still carried every scar. But a hand upon your shoulder doesn’t mean you didn’t come this far. [Chorus] I called it strength, but it was borrowed gravity— all the quiet hands that kept the ground beneath me. I said I made it on my own like love would make me less. But every time I stood alone, I wasn’t standing by myself. [Bridge] So if one night you are falling and you cannot find the ground, I won’t promise I can save you. I will only stay around. You can borrow my gravity till your feet remember how. No one stands alone forever. I know better now. [Final Chorus] Now I call it strength— all this borrowed gravity, all our quiet hands becoming ground beneath our feet. I don’t have to stand alone for every step to count as mine. Love never made me less of me. It’s how I stayed alive. I said I made it on my own like love would make me less. But every time I stood alone, I wasn’t standing by myself. [Outro] I made it here. Not on my own. And I am not ashamed.