WEIGHT OF THE WORLD Verse 1 I wanna get high Where even angels cry Somewhere past the edge of mercy Where the satellites go blind In this godforsaken land Too tired, too weak to make a stand Every day’s another funeral For the person that I planned to be The sun comes up like bad news The mirror keeps a list Of every dream I buried And every wound I missed Pre-Chorus And the weight on my chest Isn’t getting lighter No, it’s learning how to stay And I’m scared that one day I’ll stop calling it survival And just call it my name Chorus How much more of this can I take? The weight of the world, The weight of the world Everybody says it’ll get better But nobody tells you when The weight of the world, The weight of the world I’ve been carrying mountains With a broken back again And if heaven’s listening, It ain’t saying a word I’m down on my knees Under the weight of the world Verse 2 I know every crack In this apartment ceiling Know every shadow by its first name Every trick my mind is dealing I drink coffee with my demons Leave a chair for doubt The future’s at the front door But I can’t let it in the house The doctors call it progress My friends call it a phase But some nights feel like prison Without the dignity of chains Pre-Chorus And the weight on my chest Isn’t getting lighter No, it’s pulling me below And I’m running out of reasons To believe this storm Was ever meant to go Chorus How much more of this can I take? The weight of the world, The weight of the world Everybody says it’ll get better But nobody tells you when The weight of the world, The weight of the world I’ve been carrying mountains With a broken back again And if heaven’s listening, It ain’t saying a word I’m down on my knees Under the weight of the world Bridge I wanna get high Where even angels cry Past the hospitals Past the headlines Past the promises they swore Past the self-help slogans Past the silver linings I’ve heard them all before If pain builds character Then I should be a god by now So tell me— Final Chorus How much more of this can I take? The weight of the world, The weight of the world I’ve got bruises on my ribs From trying to hold it all The weight of the world, The weight of the world And nobody sees the avalanche Until the mountain falls If heaven’s listening, It ain’t saying a word I’m still breathing somehow Under the weight of the world The weight of the world The weight of the world Still breathing somehow… Under the weight of the world.
