(0:32) - Verse 1
(Bm) I brought the old coat with me
(G) Don't know why I kept the thing
(D) It’s the one I wore that winter
(A) When I didn't know how to sing
(Bm) It’s heavy from the weather
(G) It’s torn along the seams
(D) But it kept me from the cold wind
(A) When I was lost inside the dreams
(Em) I thought"Awakening" (Vol.
I) meant leaving
(G) Every single piece behind
(D) To wipe the slate to zero
(A) And reset the troubled mind
(Em) But the"Unknown Shore"
(Track 1.4) was real
(A) And the only way I'm standing here
(A-build) Is 'cause they brought me here
to you...
(3:12) - Chorus
(D) It’s the ballast, not the burden
(A) It’s the weight that keeps me true
(Bm) It's the old familiar ache
(G) That reminds me what I’ve been
through
(D) It's not the thing that holds me
captive
(A) It's the thing that holds me down
(Bm) It’s the anchor, not the prison
(G) It’s the only solid ground.
(Bm) The"house of glass" is fragile
(G) It needs a deep foundation stone
(D) And all the years I thought were
wasted
(A) Are the bedrock that I own
(Bm) I’m not haunted by the memory
(G) I am held by it, instead
(D) It's the vow I made to my own ghost
(A) To remember what he said
(2:40) - Pre-Chorus
(Em) 'Cause"Awakening" isn't leaving
(G) It's just learning how to hold
(D) The darkness and the"ordinary
light" (Track 2.2)
(A) Inside the same one, single soul
(Em) It’s the stillness and the motion
(A) It's the weight of all I was...
(A-build) ...that lets me be *me*.
(3:12) - Chorus
(D) It’s the ballast, not the burden
(A) It’s the weight that keeps me true
(Bm) It's the old familiar ache
(G) That reminds me what I’ve been
through
(D) It's not the thing that holds me
captive
(A) It's the thing that holds me down
(Bm) It’s the anchor, not the prison
(G) It’s the only solid ground.
(D) It’s the ballast, not the burden
(A) It’s the weight that keeps me true
(Bm) It's the old familiar ache
(G) That reminds me what I’ve been
through
(D) It's not the thing that holds me
captive
(A) It's the thing that holds me down
(Bm) It’s the anchor, not the prison
(G) It’s the only solid ground.
