What I Choose To Carry

Verse 1

I hear the way you talk like money is the only kind of safety

I see the weight you drag behind you like a promise you can’t break

I’m not here to argue with the storms you’ve had to walk through

I’m just saying peace came when I stopped chasing what was never mine to take

Chorus

I’m not wealthy, I’m not sheltered, I’m not living some protected kind of story

I’m content with what I’m given, and I won’t apologize for choosing something different

You can mock me if you need to, but it won’t pull me from the ground I stand on

I don’t measure life by money

I measure it by peace

And that’s what I choose to carry

Verse 2

You say every problem you’ve had traces back to what you didn’t have

You say the only way out is to run harder than your body can survive

But I’ve learned that fear can dress itself up as ambition

And the louder it shouts, the more it’s trying to hide

Chorus

I’m not wealthy, I’m not sheltered, I’m not living some protected kind of story

I’m content with what I’m given, and I won’t apologize for choosing something different

You can mock me if you need to, but it won’t pull me from the ground I stand on

I don’t measure life by money

I measure it by peace

And that’s what I choose to carry

Bridge

You’re free to chase whatever you believe will save you

But don’t mistake my quiet for ignorance

I’ve seen what the world can take from a person

And I still chose faith over fear

Because fear never kept me warm

Final Chorus

I’m not wealthy, I’m not sheltered, I’m not living some protected kind of story

I’m content with what I’m given, and I won’t apologize for choosing something different

You can mock me if you need to, but it won’t pull me from the ground I stand on

I don’t measure life by money

I measure it by peace

And that’s what I choose to carry