The Lion Spirit

[VERSE 1]
I was told to stay behind, the way I'm always told to stay behind,
and I have never once, in my whole life, been good at staying anywhere I wasn't allowed to be needed.
I followed anyway, quiet, the way he taught me, without meaning to teach me that specific skill.
I told myself I was only watching. I have never once only watched anything in my life.
[CHORUS]
I always worried I was something somebody left behind by accident, easy to set back down.
Then I watched him become something enormous rather than lose me, and I understood, finally, all at once,