Blood in My Heart

[Verse 1]
I kept the names in a drawer by the bed,
Old photographs, things we almost said.
Some were a season, some barely a start,
Each one left a small red mark on my heart.

[Pre-Chorus]
I thought every almost meant wait,
Held the door long after it closed.
Now I can feel what belongs to me
By the way my own pulse goes.

[Chorus]
Blood in my heart, keep carrying me,
Past what was and what couldn’t be.
Every old promise can loosen its hold,
I’m not that road, I’m not that road.
Blood in my heart, run honest and true,
There’s room for a life that I haven’t walked through.
I bless what I loved, let the lost stories go—
I’m not that road anymore.

[Verse 2]
There was the summer that never began,
Two train tickets and a change of plans.
There was the one who was kind but not home,
And all of the ways I mistook being known.

[Pre-Chorus]
No blame to carry, no debt to repay,
Some doors were only a view.
I take the good that they gave to me,
And leave the rest where it grew.

[Chorus]
Blood in my heart, keep carrying me,
Past what was and what couldn’t be.
Every old promise can loosen its hold,
I’m not that road, I’m not that road.
Blood in my heart, run honest and true,
There’s room for a life that I haven’t walked through.
I bless what I loved, let the lost stories go—
I’m not that road anymore.

[Outro]
Past in my pulse, but the next step is mine.
Blood in my heart, keeping time.