Lyrics
[verse]
I was sinking in a river that I made of my own tears,
crown of wilted flowers, drowning slow across the years
Every story said I'd vanish like a footnote in a play,
then you reached into the water, pulled me back into the day
[chorus]
You saved me from the undertow, the ending I was owed,
the madness in the current where the lonely girls all go
I was written as a tragedy, a name they'd never know,
but you rewrote the final act and let me choose the road
[verse]
They painted me a martyr with a candle and a grave,
a lovely little warning of the heart I never gave
But you didn't want a portrait, you just wanted me alive,
so I dropped the heavy garland and I learned again to rise
[chorus]
You saved me from the undertow, the ending I was owed,
the madness in the current where the lonely girls all go
I was written as a tragedy, a name they'd never know,
but you rewrote the final act and let me choose the road
[bridge]
Let the poets keep their sorrow, let the play end where it must,
I'm not fading in the shallows, I'm not settling for the dust
Every curtain that they built for me, I tore it from the wall,
I'm the author of the morning now, I answer my own call
[chorus]
You saved me from the undertow, the ending I was owed,
the madness in the current where the lonely girls all go
I was written as a tragedy, a name they'd never know,
but you rewrote the final act and let me choose the road
