Lyrics
Tonight feels different somehow…
There’s a chair by the window
Where the evening settles in
Like it knows where I’ve been
Every photograph still hanging
From another year
Looks a little closer here
All the miles I carried through
Are standing in this room
There’s a badge on the table tonight
Feels heavier under this light
Every story that it carried still alive inside my head
Every road that I walked alone
Every name I still take home
Every oath I was trying to defend
There’s a badge on the table tonight
And I’m learning who I am without the fight
There’s a quiet in the hallway
I’ve never known before
Like I’m not running anymore
Still I hear the voices calling
From another time
They never left my mind
Every face I couldn’t save
Still walks with me every night
There’s a badge on the table tonight
Feels heavier under this light
Every story that it carried still alive inside my hands
Every road that I walked alone
Every name I still take home
Every oath I was trying to defend
There’s a badge on the table tonight
And I’m learning who I am without the fight
Maybe strength ain’t walking through the fire again
Maybe strength is finally letting go of when
There’s a badge on the table tonight
Still shining in the kitchen light
Every chapter that it carried still a part of who I’ll be
Every line I held too long
Every right and every wrong
Led me somewhere I was meant to finally see
There’s a badge on the table tonight
But the man behind it’s still standing here with me
It don’t lose the life I lived
It just sets these shoulders free
Tonight feels different somehow…
And I’m still here when the uniform’s gone