Witness is the fifth song from Wage War’s second full-length album Deadweight, released on 4th August 2017. The music video for this song premiered the day the album came out.
[Intro]
I buried the judgment...
I covered my tracks!
Soon to be forgotten...
There’s a new life ahead!
It was my hope that was fading...
I was caught in a trap!
It's the burden of failure...
I carried on my back!
[Verse 1]
Let's get this straight
A lot has changed in the last year
Thought I had everything together but watched it all disappear
I put my faith in the wrong things
When I woke up, it was gone, I gave up on me!
Didn't even recognize myself
Self-worth is not found in someone else
Chase what you want, never give up!
Salt the wound; all ties are cut
[Chorus]
And now I see, I was broken to be made a better me
Had to learn to let it go and let it be
Sometimes we’re too blind to see!
Go!
[Breakdown]
The hardest lessons that we learn
Are the ones where knowledge must be earned
It's what makes us human, it's what gets us through it
[Hook]
Weighed down by the pressures of saving face
This is a dark world, I’ll be your witness
Witness
[Chorus]
And now I see, I was broken to be made a better me
Had to learn to let it go and let it be
Sometimes we’re too blind to see!
[Outro]
Learn to let it go and let it be
Learn to let it go and let it, be
Learn to let it go and let it be
Learn to let it go...
Witness was written by Chris Gaylord & Cody Quistad & Jeremy McKinnon & Seth Blake.
Witness was produced by Jeremy McKinnon & Andrew Wade.
On August 8th 2017, Fearless Records uploaded a “Witness Song Explanation” video where clean vocalist Cody Quistad and unclean vocalist Briton Bond explain the meaning behind the song and how it came to be.