Lay Your Burden Down

Lay Your Burden Down
©2010 John McVey/SESAC

What's that weight you are carrying
It looks like the past has climbed on board
Every fear, misstep, expectation and
Everyone who misunderstood

There's a weight upon you I can only see
By the way you stand
Like the earth might fall without you there
This world is a crazy place
And it will lay it's weight upon you
But it isn't yours …
No it isn't yours to bear

Lay your burden down
Lay your burden down

In dreams you're weightless
Like laughter on a summer breeze
But you wake in the arms of gravity
You say “it's not that heavy”
But you look away too soon
Cuz you know you could …
You know you could be free

If only you'd
Lay your burden down
Lay your burden down

It starts like a tremor way under the ocean floor
But as soon as you begin, it ends like a tidal wave
And you can't hold it in any more

Lay your burden down
Lay your burden down
Right here … right here