KRISTOPHER DANIEL PINNELL™

Lyrics

From Our Fractured Souls
Written By: Kristopher Daniel Pinnell
Intro
Dad passed out
In the kitchen light
You were crying
Thought he’d died that night
I checked his eyes
When the light hit through
Six years old
What else could I do

VERSE 1
I was six
With a stove and a kitchen chair
Checking Dad’s eyes
Just to prove he was there
You were four
Holding fear and hunger
Leaving me to wonder
Not letting us fall under
A rag doll in your hand
I would take a stand
Where no child
Should ever have to land

Chorus
We were just kids
In a burning room
Too young
For the weight
We had assumed
Trying to raise
Each other whole
With borrowed strength
From our fractured souls

VERSE 2
Floorboards of the truck
Northern cold in our bones
No blanket
No mercy
Just silence and stones
I curled around you
So you wouldn’t freeze
My back ached
Like a lifelong disease

Pre-Chorus
We fought
Just to stand
Like we owed them a scene
But love doesn’t shine
Where the air isn’t clean.

Chorus
We were just kids
In a burning room
Too young
For the weight
We had assumed
Trying to raise
Each other whole
With borrowed strength
From our fractured souls

Refrain
Most of our lives
We stood apart
Carrying pieces of that start
But here we are
No one to blame
We were too young
Not wrong
Just Living
Someone else’s shame
Someone else’s shame



VERSE 3
Years went by
We learned to stay small
Talk without talkin
No voice at all
I took the flak
Then I carried the blame
I got mean at you
It wasn’t because
Of your name

Chorus
We were just kids
In a burning room
Too young
For the weight
We had assumed
Trying to raise
Each other whole
With borrowed strength
From our fractured souls

Bridge
New York City lights
I still couldn’t land
still couldn’t land
Spent my last night
Just to reach
For your hand
reach for your hand


VERSE 4
If I sounded like thunder
It wasn’t because of you
It was the storm
I was dragging us through
I tried to protect you
I failed
I didn’t press
I won’t dress it up
I am just here to confess
I take this pain
My truth
My shame
With no fame
This was no game
You were not wrong to blame
We were Just born
Into someone else’s shame.

[Chorus]
We were just kids
In a burning room
Too young
For the weight
We had assumed
Trying to raise
Each other whole
With borrowed strength
From our fractured souls

[Outro]
Dad passed out
In the kitchen light
You were crying
Thought he’d died that night
I checked his eyes
When the light hit through
Six years old
What else
Was I supposed to do