The Ground I’m Standing On

[Verse 1]
I pass the station where I almost left
A paper cup, the rain along the curb
Some other life still wears my borrowed coat
And says the things I swallowed back at birth

[Pre-Chorus]
I used to count the doors I didn’t try
As if the unopened ones were mine

[Chorus]
For every life I never got to live
I grieve a little, then I let it drift
I’m here, with both my hands, my ordinary days
The one who stayed is worthy of a place
I can’t be every road beneath the sun
But I can love the ground I’m standing on

[Verse 2]
The old guitar still leans beside the stairs
I never learned the song I meant to play
But someone laughs at breakfast in this house
And I am glad I didn’t miss today

[Pre-Chorus]
No map could hold the person I became
No wrong turn takes the good out of my name

[Final Chorus]
For every life I never got to live
I grieve a little, then I let it drift
I’m here, with both my hands, my ordinary days
The one who stayed is worthy of a place
I can’t be every road beneath the sun
But I can love the ground I’m standing on

[Outro]
This life is small enough to hold
And mine enough to call my own