[Verse 1]
Got my hands on the cliff edge
Knuckles white
Lungs on fire
Every rung feels like rusted steel
Every step sets the past up higher
All the plans in a torn-up notebook
All the names that I learned to erase
Every promise that cracked like concrete
Still stuck to the bottom of my boots I drag
[Chorus]
I keep climbing
But the ground keeps rising
Gravity don’t let me go
Life keeps swinging
Heartbreak swinging
Like a hammer to the bones
I see the summit in the smoke and static
But I’m tangled in the undertow
I keep climbing
Yeah I keep climbing
Gravity don’t let me go (oh-oh)
[Verse 2]
You said “love” like it meant forever
Then you left with the morning train
Now your ghost is a weight on my jacket
All your letters just spelling my shame
Every “almost” carved into my shoulders
Every “maybe” a chain on my chest
I’m a mountain made out of missteps
But I still put one foot over the next
[Chorus]
I keep climbing
But the ground keeps rising
Gravity don’t let me go
Life keeps swinging
Heartbreak swinging
Like a hammer to the bones
I see the summit in the smoke and static
But I’m tangled in the undertow
I keep climbing
Yeah I keep climbing
Gravity don’t let me go (oh-oh)
[Bridge]
[Choir soft
Distant]
Hold on
When your fingers slip
Hold on
When the daylight quits
[Lead vocal]
If every fall just feeds the fire
If every scar is proof I tried
Then pull me down a thousand times
I’ll crawl
I’ll crawl
I’ll crawl back up the side (hey!)
[Chorus]
I keep climbing
But the ground keeps rising
Gravity don’t let me go
Life keeps swinging
Heartbreak swinging
Like a hammer to the bones
I see the summit in the smoke and static
But I’m tangled in the undertow
I keep climbing
Yeah I keep climbing
Gravity don’t let me go
[Outro]
[Full choir + gang vocals]
Don’t let me go
Don’t let me go
I keep climbing
I keep climbing
Gravity don’t let me go