PUT IT DOWN

PUT IT DOWN (DUET – COUNTRY HEARTLAND ROCK)

Verse 1 — HIM

I learned young how to hold the sky,

Kept the storms off everyone but me.

Played the strong one, played the guy

Who never let his shaking knees be seen.

They called when the night got heavy,

And I drove myself right through the dark,

Held the roof up with my shoulders

Till I couldn’t feel my own heart.

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Verse 1 — HER

I watched him drowning standing tall,

Watched him trade himself for peace,

Kept the house from falling down

But he disappeared inside the crease.

And every time the thunder rolled,

He’d run headfirst toward the sound,

Till one day I saw him tremble

When he finally set it down…

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**Pre-Chorus — BOTH (soft harmony)

He kept turning up the brightness like sunlight was a cure,

But some folks fall in love with shadows they’ve been living in for years…

And loving them don’t mean you burn alive for them anymore…

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**CHORUS — BOTH (power harmony, drums hit)

So we put it down, didn’t throw it out,

Didn’t drop the world — just stopped carrying it around.

There’s a quiet in our chest where panic used to scream,

Not empty, just breathing,

Not broken — finally free.

Yeah, we still love them, but we love us now somehow,

So we put the world down.

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Verse 2 — HIM

There’s a brother always almost clean,

A mother praying hope won’t fade,

And I thought if I just climbed higher

They’d learn to live inside the day.

So I sharpened every corner of my soul,

Built a heart that wouldn’t break,

But you can’t save folks from the futures

They ain’t ready yet to face.

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Verse 2 — HER

Yeah I loved that man who carried mountains,

Even when it meant he disappeared,

So when he said “I can’t keep fixing this,”

I cried — but oh my God, I cheered.

’Cause bravery ain’t martyrdom,

And love ain’t bleeding ’til you drown,

Sometimes the strongest thing you’ll ever do

Is finally set it down.

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Pre-Chorus — BOTH

There wasn’t thunder,

No dramatic fall from grace,

Just a quiet truth that whispered,

“Baby, you don’t have to stay…”

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**CHORUS — BOTH (bigger, layered harmonies)

So we put it down, didn’t throw it out,

Didn’t drop the world — just stopped carrying it around.

There’s a quiet in our chest where panic used to scream,

Not empty, just breathing,

Not broken — finally free.

Yeah, we still love them, but we love us now somehow,

So we put the world down.

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BRIDGE — CALL & RESPONSE

HIM: I didn’t walk away from love

HER: You walked back into your life

HIM: I just stopped mistaking pain

HER: For being needed to survive

HIM: If they ever learn to stand,

HER: We’ll be cheering from the town

BOTH: But we won’t lose ourselves again

To keep the world around.

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**FINAL CHORUS — FULL BAND, ANTHEMIC

We put it down, laid it gently on the ground,

Still show up when we can, just don’t disappear to be found.

There’s a home inside our ribcage we can finally live in now,

Laugh a little louder,

Learn how not to bow.

If love’s a light, it shouldn’t burn you to the ground…

So we finally, put it down