Lay It Down — UNWRITTEN

The door just closed.
You can hear the quiet it left.
Two of you in the same wreckage,
facing opposite walls.

I saw what it did to you.
I'm not going to call it fair.
You earned every degree of that fire,
I won't take it from you.
The emotions pulling you away,
and the weight pulls you down
white at the knuckle, holding the thing that hurt,
and I have watched it keep you exactly where you are.

I know letting go feels like letting it off easy…
But the only one still chained to it is you.

So lay it down.
You can't reach for anything with your heart drowning.
Lay it down,
whatever's been holding you behind that wall.
It's heavy, I know.
It's all you've got.
But it's the weight, not the wound,
that won't let you move now.
Lay it down.

And you, the one who walked,
I saw your hands shake at the door.
You didn't leave because you stopped caring,
you left because you couldn't stand the sight of what you'd done.
You reached to mend it and you broke it,
and the breaking is all you can see,
so you carry it out into the dark
where you think no one watches you bleed…

You call the leaving mercy.
You tell yourself they're better off.
But it's the same weight, just a different name,
the same wall.

So lay it down.
Neither of you moves with your head in the dark.
Lay it down,
the rage, the guilt, the years that built the wall.
It's heavy, I know.
It's all you've got.
But it's the weight, not the wound,
that won't let you move now.
Lay it down. Lay it down.

This is not forgetting.
It does not mean it didn't cut.
Setting down a thing this heavy
might be the hardest love there is.
But no one crosses over with their arms already full.
So somebody go first.
Somebody be the one to let it fall.

— solo —

Lay it down.
Set your soul free now.
Lay it down,
there is a way back through the wall.
It was heavy, I know.
It was all you had.
But it's the weight, not the wound,
and the weight is finally coming off.
Lay it down. Lay it down.

Before you can't get up…
Write what has been unwritten…

Look up.
The door is open.
Someone's holding out their hand.
Lay it down, and take it.
and don't look back…