Gavin Marchbank - Dragging Anchors lyrics

These days I'm finding it hard to believe in myself I've been treading open water for so long, and I can't find a way out It's becoming clear, no matter how high I keep my head I can never reclaim, from shallow graves, the dreams I've laid there Although you'll try to resurrect this mind, what's dead is gone Carry the corpse home Glimpsing memories of a life lived through hollow truths My glaring failures My conceited youth We all carry our burdens like anchors Bringing me to my knees The weight of devastation I pushed aside the lessons in search of vindication Vindication My redemption, my undoing My inability to overcome my desperation This burning in my bones The cost of forgetting, they've all let go My hopes, My hopes are drowning in these crippling dunes Dragging anchors, Dragging anchors toward my distant dreams The tides of time were washed out long ago They won't be back until I sleep So I sought refuge in community And abandoned who we were all meant to be The burden of these lesions we keep Restricting all of us from futures we seek Sisyphean dreams We all carry our burdens like anchors We all carry our burdens like anchors We hold this end unguarded Free your voices Free your failing hearts Inhale your exile Exhale unified