[Verse 1]
In darkness and vain,
Yet only myself to blame.
I let people be themselves,
Even when they caused me pain.
I gave when there was nothing left,
Poured from an empty cup.
Smiled and laughed about the cost,
While life was beating me up.
I carried weights that weren’t my own,
Tried to keep the whole world whole.
Held together shattered hearts
While slowly losing hold.
[Pre-Chorus]
Now I look back through the years,
Through the laughter and the tears,
And the picture’s getting clear…
[Chorus]
I don’t blame me,
I don’t blame you,
We’re all just passing through.
Brothers, mothers,
Fathers too,
Doing what they knew to do.
And every scar that love has made,
Every debt I thought I paid,
Still brought me here today.
So I don’t blame me,
And I don’t blame you.
[Verse 2]
It’s almost funny looking back,
The sacrifice of self.
Giving pieces of my soul away
To keep somebody else.
Not because I had to stay,
Not because I couldn’t leave,
But because somewhere deep inside
I still believed.
That love was worth the heartbreak,
That faith was worth the fall.
That maybe if I gave enough,
I’d finally heal us all.
[Pre-Chorus]
But some roads aren’t meant for saving,
Some lessons must be lived.
And some wounds only close
When we finally forgive.
[Chorus]
I don’t blame me,
I don’t blame you,
We’re all just passing through.
Brothers, mothers,
Fathers too,
Doing what they knew to do.
And every scar that love has made,
Every debt I thought I paid,
Still brought me here today.
So I don’t blame me,
And I don’t blame you.
[Bridge - Slow, emotional]
Of fathers…
So seldom is the case
Where love is felt
Without embrace.
Yet somehow they still hold the key,
Without them…
I could never be.
And every time I look behind,
And anger tries to take my mind,
I see love where others see hate,
I see myself…
If not fate.
[Final Chorus]
I don’t blame me,
I don’t blame you,
The broken and the beautiful.
Every choice,
Every mistake,
Every road I chose to take.
Though my soul was cracked apart,
The pieces taught my heart
What it means to be alive.
So I thank the pain,
I thank the truth,
I thank the road that led me through.
And I don’t blame me,
And I don’t blame you.
