Protect Your Heart

Verse 1

Protect your heart, my son, tonight

Let go the thoughts that steal your light

The questions spinning in your head

About a life you haven’t lived

Where will he go, how will he stay

How will he make it through his days

You carry things you don’t need to

And somehow they start carrying you

Pre-Chorus

But listen close, I need you near

There’s something only love makes clear

Chorus

Oh son, you don’t need to worry

He will find his way in time

He can carry all the weight

Of his own tomorrow and his life

Where he will live, where he will stay

Those are his steps, his road to take

Don’t let his storm become your own

You deserve to breathe again

Verse 2

I know your heart, I know you care

You feel his sadness in the air

And when he breaks, you break in two

Like there’s something you should do

But love is not a burden shared

It doesn’t mean you’re always there

To fix the things you cannot change

Or hold the pieces in his pain

Pre-Chorus

So when it feels too much to bear

Come back and hear me whisper there

Chorus

Oh son, you don’t need to worry

He will find his way in time

He can carry all the weight

Of his own tomorrow and his life

Where he will live, where he will stay

Those are his steps, his road to take

Don’t let his storm become your own

You deserve to breathe again

Bridge

We are working through this, I know

Even when it’s hard to show

There may be tears, there may be change

But none of this is yours to arrange

You don’t have to fix it all

You don’t have to catch his fall

You don’t have to carry what

Was never meant for you at all

Final Chorus

So son, please don’t worry

It will all work out in time

We are working through this, I promise you

We’ll be alright

You just keep living, you just keep growing

Let your own heart keep on going

He’ll find his road, and we’ll find ours

And you don’t have to carry what isn’t yours

Outro

Protect your heart, my son

Let the heavy thoughts drift away

You are allowed to be happy

You are allowed to be okay

And whatever tomorrow brings

You will never face it alone

Just be my son

And let the weight of the world

Stay where it belongs

Not on you