Quiet Cargo

Verse 1

I stood in your driveway longer than I should

Trying to find the right last words

You kept saying you’d be okay

But your eyes were doing something else

I don’t think either of us believed it

We just didn’t want to make it worse

Pre-Chorus

I don’t need a promise

I just need to mean this

Chorus

I will carry you quietly

Through whatever comes next for me

I won’t ask you to stay or choose

I’ll just keep the good parts of you

If loving you means letting go

Then that’s what I’ll learn to do

I will carry you quietly

Even when you’re not here anymore

Verse 2

There’s a shirt you left in my back seat

I still smell your shampoo in it

I should throw it out but I don’t

Because that would feel like lying

Everybody thinks endings are loud

But this one barely said goodbye

Pre-Chorus

I don’t need to be remembered

I just need to be honest

Chorus

I will carry you quietly

Not in pictures not in pain

I won’t hold you like a regret

I’ll hold you like a name

If our story is finished now

Then let it end true

I will carry you quietly

In everything I do

Bridge

I don’t want forever

I just want to mean what I said

That you mattered to me

More than how it all ended

Final Chorus

I will carry you quietly

Through whatever I become

I won’t rewrite what we were

Just because it’s done

If loving you is something

I don’t get to explain

I will carry you quietly

In the life I make

Outro

I won’t chase you

But I won’t forget either