00:12I like the song that someone else wrote
00:15Keeps looping in my head like a quote
00:19I don't even know the notes
00:22Just the way it made me choke
00:26On my own breath, on my own hope
00:29Humming all the wrong parts
00:33Still it hits me in the throat
00:39I'm stuck in somebody else's chorus
00:43Singing lines that were never for us
00:47But they fit my fear, they fit my doubt
00:49Like they crawled inside and mapped me out
00:53I don't know the words, I don't know the notes
00:56But it's all I have when my chest gets close
01:00I'm stuck in somebody else's chorus
01:05Till I turn it into ours
01:11Verse about a girl I never knew
01:14Still it feels like something I went through
01:18Every little heartbreak cue
01:20Lights up every scar in view
01:24So mumble through the made up rhyme
01:27Change a name, skip a line
01:29Funny how a stranger's pain
01:31Can sound exactly like mine
01:37I like the song that someone else wrote
01:43It's playing in my head
01:47And I don't even know the notes
01:51I'm stuck in somebody else's chorus
01:55Singing lines that were never for us
01:58But they fit my fear, they fit my doubt
02:01Like they crawled inside and mapped me out
02:05I don't know the words, I don't know the notes
02:08But it's all I have when my chest gets close
02:12I'm stuck in somebody else's chorus
02:17Till I turn it into ours
02:23Maybe that's a secret
02:25None of this is owned
02:27Every broken feeling
02:28Looking for a home
02:30So I steal that melody
02:32Twist it till it sounds like me
02:35If I can't write what I feel
02:39I'll rewrite what healed me
02:44I was stuck in somebody else's chorus
02:49Now I'm changing every line for us
02:51Let it hold my fear, hold my doubt
02:54Till the quiet parts are finally loud
02:58I don't know the rules
03:00I don't know the notes
03:01But I'm singing anyway
03:03Clear in my throat
03:05I was stuck in somebody else's chorus
03:10Now I'm turning it to ours
03:23The Life and Living Series
03:26Five Standalone Stories
03:29Read them in any order
03:30By Joseph M. Leonard
03:33I'm a man
03:33I'm not using a man
03:33I'm using a man
03:33It's a man
03:33I'm using a man
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