All These Selves Together

[Verse 1]
I wake with a mouthful of borrowed names
One of me counts the cracks in the ceiling
One rides west on a freight-line train
One keeps smiling through the meeting

[Pre-Chorus]
I can trace each life by the mark it left
But none of them answers when I ask

[Chorus]
Which one is the face I’m meant to keep?
Which one is the voice beneath the others?
Maybe I’m the sum of every fracture
Maybe I’m condemned to split forever

[Verse 2]
There’s a hand that signs where I should sign
A stranger’s laugh caught in my throat
I see my eyes in a shopfront glass
And every version looks alone

[Pre-Chorus]
If I could choose, would I still be whole?
Or is the wound the shape of my soul?

[Chorus]
Which one is the face I’m meant to keep?
Which one is the voice beneath the others?
Maybe I’m the sum of every fracture
Maybe I’m condemned to split forever

[Bridge]
No single thread can pull me free
No one life can hold the whole of me
I gather what I can’t erase
And let them speak from the same place

[Final Chorus]
I am every face I couldn’t keep
I am every voice beneath the others
Not one life can name me or contain me
Still I carry all these selves together

[Outro]
All these selves together