Song Description
"What Have I Become" from Tethered Souls portrays a person's journey through loneliness and self-alienation, searching for remnants of their true self amid pain and silence. Grappling with the weight of past mistakes and unchangeable choices have left them scarred and bound to fading memories. Questioning what they've become, they wonder if others would help them heal or abandon them in their suffering. There's a deep yearning to start fresh, to hold onto themselves, and to let light back into t
| Song Length |
3:11 |
Genre |
Folk - Alternative, Unique - Avant garde |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Depressing, Heartbreaking |
Subject |
Sorrow, Pain |
| Similar Artists |
Amos Lee |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I walk this empty road,
To feel the ground beneath my feet,
I search through powdered earth,
For something left of me
The silence rips so deep,
A familiar kind of pain,
I try to drown it out,
But it keeps me wide awake.
[Chorus]
What have I become?
A stranger to myself.
Everyone I've known
They travel their own way
If you could see me now,
Am I broken apart,
Would you turn away,
Or help me find my way?
[Verse 2]
I wear these scars like chains,
Bound to memories I've made,
Pieces of a broken past,
I cannot seem to shake.
Time has stained my soul,
The colors fade to gray,
I'm lost within a maze
Of choices I can't change.
[Chorus]
What have I become?
A shadow of my past.
Everyone I've loved
Has vanished like the ash.
If you could reach me now,
Through this wall of pain,
Would you pull me out,
Or leave me in the rain?
(In the rain)
[Bridge:]
If I could start brand new, (if I could start brand new)
Miles from where I've been, (Miles where I've Been)
I'd hold onto myself (hold onto myself)
And I'd let the light back in.
[Chorus:]
What have I become?
A shadow of my past.
Everyone I've loved
Has vanished like the ash.
If you could reach me now,
Through this wall of pain,
Would you pull me out?
Or leave me in the rain?
(in the rain)
(in the rain)