Every Scar Votes

Lyrics

[Intro | gritty guitar riff with full-density programmed drums]
[Hook]
Tally the weight, every one
Tally the weight, they don't lie
Tally the weight, I'm still here
Tally the weight, still alive
[Verse 1]
Left shoulder, the fall off the chain-link fence
Three inches of scar where I caught the descent
Fifteen, broke a tooth on the bathroom tile
Body kept the record like it knew I'd need the file
Knuckles still rise where the cold used to settle in
Skin remembers every night I slept in
That hunger don't forget, it just moves a different way
[Hook]
Tally the weight, every one
Tally the weight, they don't lie
Tally the weight, I'm still here
Tally the weight, still alive
[Verse 2]
Back of the jaw where the wisdom came in wrong
No dentist, no money, just learned to move along
Rib I never got checked, healed a half-inch off
Body did the math when I couldn't pay the cost
Palms read like a ledger of every surface held
Chain-link, brick, cold pipe when the winter swelled
Every mark a date, every date a line I crossed in time
[Instrumental Break | guitar holds; drums reduce to kick]
[Bridge | almost whispered]
I used to want to trade it
Smooth skin, clean slate, erase it
But the body doesn't mourn what it survived
It just carries it, quiet, classified
[Hook]
Tally the weight, every one
Tally the weight, they don't lie
Tally the weight, I'm still here
Tally the weight, still alive
[Outro]
Still alive, still alive
[End]