Even if I’m not remembered

I’ve felt trouble. I’ve felt pain.
I’ve had it all, and I’ve had it taken away.
Thought I was at the top a time or two,
Gambled a little too heavy and it all fell through.

No matter how hard I push,
The weight just gets bigger—
But the strength I bring?
It’s resilient.
I’ll push till I’m bigger.

The more that I lift,
The stronger I get.
I don’t look back,
And I don’t regret.

These scars, these cuts, these bruises—
They happened.
But my eyes aren’t back there,
And they’re not too far ahead either.

I’m making decisions right now,
Laying down layers,
Sorting through what’s in my head.

I can see the end—
Not the dark kind,
But the kind where everything finally lines up
Like a pattern I recognize.

I’m nobody’s hero,
But I gave it everything.
Sat down my ego
Even when it meant I’d fall.

I don’t care who gets the glory,
I just hope they tell my story—
That I lived to be remembered,
That I moved something,
Shifted something,
Changed something that needed changing.

Yeah, I get down sometimes.
Not on myself—
On the impact I haven’t made yet,
The lift I haven’t hit.

They say you outgrow people like seasons,
Doesn’t mean you don’t look back on them—
Whatever the reasons.

The bumps, the bruises,
The way that it is,
The way it was,
The way it’ll be.

I guess the thing that keeps me going
Is knowing I’m not in control of destiny.
I’m just a part of something bigger—
Even if my part
Never gets remembered.

Country, rock, soulful, gravel voiced blues