I WALK
ANYWAY.

Some roads don’t get lighter.
Some nights don’t end quickly.
But a man keeps walking
when standing still would break him.

I walk ahead through the weather
Not spared by life, not spared by pain
I have learned the shape of silence
I have learned the weight of rain

Every day the sun feels further
Every night feels close behind
And I ask the empty morning
How much road is left of mine

I don’t know how many days remain
I don’t know what the darkness knows
I only know these tired feet
Still remember where to go

So I walk anyway
Through the lonely and the cold
I walk anyway
With this sorrow in my bones

If the night should stay forever
If the light should lose its name
I will lift my head in silence
And I’ll walk anyway

There are people all around me
There are voices in the air
But the closer that they gather
The more alone I feel in there

No one sees the road I carry
No one hears the quiet fall
They just see a man still moving
And they think I need nothing at all

I don’t need a golden answer
I don’t need the sky to speak
Just a little living mercy
For the parts of me grown weak

So I walk anyway
Through the lonely and the cold
I walk anyway
With this sorrow in my bones

If the night should stay forever
If the light should lose its name
I will lift my head in silence
And I’ll walk anyway

Pain has walked beside me
Life has worn my name
Loneliness has found me
Like an old familiar flame

But I am not the darkness
Though it knows my door
I am still the one who rises
And takes one step more

I walk anyway…
I walk anyway…
Even when nobody sees me
I walk anyway

So I walk anyway
Through the lonely and the cold
I walk anyway
With this sorrow in my bones

If the night should stay forever
If the light should lose its name
I will keep one small light burning
And I’ll walk anyway

One more breath
One more road
One more step
Through the cold

I don’t know
What waits for me
But I walk anyway
Still breathing