Bury The Old Me

He was late nights, wrong crowd, cold floors

Talking big talk, heart small, closed doors

Every mirror was a fight, I’d dodge my own face

Blaming everybody else for my choices, my waste

He was backseat, chain smoke, dead stare

Saying “one day, I’ll change” like hot air

Left messages on read, left family on seen

Had a good heart buried in a bad routine

I gotta bury the old me, he ain’t me no more

Throw the dirt on the doubts, let ’em sink in the floor

If you looking for that kid, you gon’ knock on the past

I put a shovel in my shame, I ain’t going back (nah)

I gotta bury the old me, say a prayer, then leave

Cut the ties to the lies that I used to believe

If you love who I was, you can keep that ghost

I’m standing in the sun while he fades in the smoke (yeah)

He was “trust me,” then break it in a week

He was loud in the crowd, but empty when he’d speak

He was scrolling through the pain, laughing in the scroll

He was quiet in the car, storm inside his soul

Now I’m digging in the dirt, hands raw, chest tight

Every bad habit screaming, “you can’t live right”

But I’m done with the drama that I wrote myself

I signed my own letter, put him back on the shelf

I gotta bury the old me, he ain’t me no more

Throw the dirt on the doubts, let ’em sink in the floor

If you looking for that kid, you gon’ knock on the past

I put a shovel in my shame, I ain’t going back (hey)

I gotta bury the old me, say a prayer, then leave

Cut the ties to the lies that I used to believe

If you love who I was, you can keep that ghost

I’m standing in the sun while he fades in the smoke (let him go)

Laid him down

No flowers, no speech

Just a name on a page

That he’ll never repeat

Laid him down

One tear, then breathe

If they ask who I am

Tell ’em “watch and see”

I gotta bury the old me, he ain’t me no more

Throw the dirt on the doubts, let ’em sink in the floor

If you looking for that kid, you gon’ knock on the past

I put a shovel in my shame, I ain’t going back

I gotta bury the old me, say a prayer, then leave

Cut the ties to the lies that I used to believe

If you love who I was, you can keep that ghost

I’m writing out a life that he never could hold (yeah)