I Dont Answer To The Dead

Intro You left me your rules and a debt I never made

Verse 1 Your chair still creaks when the floorboards shift Your name still hangs where the wallpaper peeled You wrote my whole life on a feed-store pad And signed it before I could feel I wore your jaw and I wore your silence Carried your shame like a borrowed coat But the man who handed me all his hammers Can't reach up here from the throat

Pre-Chorus You don't get a say from down there You don't get a vote in the air

Chorus I don't answer to the dead I don't kneel to a voice in the ground I let your laws go cold where I let you down You can shout from the dark, but I drowned out the sound I don't answer to the dead

Verse 2 You left a ledger of who to fear A list of doors I should never knock You taught me to flinch at a raised right hand And run from the kick of the clock But I burned the list on the kitchen stove And I knocked on every one The thunder you swore would strike me down Was just an old man's tongue

Pre-Chorus You don't get a say from down there You don't get a vote in the air

Chorus I don't answer to the dead I don't kneel to a voice in the ground I let your laws go cold where I let you down You can shout from the dark, but I drowned out the sound I don't answer to the dead

Bridge I used to bring my whole life to your stone Ask the granite what I should do But granite don't raise me, granite don't know And I'm done taking orders from you I don't answer to the dead I don't kneel to a voice in the ground I let your laws go cold where I let you down You can shout from the dark, but I drowned out the sound I don't answer to the dead And I'm louder than you ever sounded

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