If It Matters to One

[Verse 1]
You count the hours like coins in a jar
Stack every small win, still wonder how far
The page goes quiet when the room empties out
And all that you built feels too easy to doubt

[Pre-Chorus]
But somebody found the door you left ajar
Somebody kept going because of who you are

[Chorus]
If it matters to one, it mattered in time
A hand on the railing, a match in the mine
You don't get to see every seed that you sow
But roots take their hold where the cold rivers go

[Verse 2]
Your name may wear thin on a file or a wall
The kindness you gave won't be filed there at all
It lives in the sentence they chose not to say
In the courage they carried into the next day

[Pre-Chorus]
The work isn't measured by who keeps the score
A life can turn quietly, then open a door

[Chorus]
If it matters to one, it mattered in time
A hand on the railing, a match in the mine
You don't get to see every seed that you sow
But roots take their hold where the cold rivers go

[Bridge]
Let the years take the paper, the praise, and the frame
You changed what was possible; that's not the same
As being remembered by everyone here
You made one hard moment less lonely to bear

[Final Chorus]
If it matters to one, it mattered in time
A hand on the railing, a match in the mine
You don't get to see every seed that you sow
But roots take their hold where the cold rivers go

[Outro]
Somewhere a door swings wide
Because you left it that way