The Maze Is Smaller

[Verse 1]
I drew every door I didn't choose
A paper map with a hundred rooms
I kept their names in a coat-pocket fold
As if one might still come true if held

[Pre-Chorus]
But the walls don't move when I look away
And the turns I feared have worn smooth with days

[Chorus]
Goodbye to the lives I never lived
To every almost, every what-if
The maze is smaller than it used to be
I let those roads stop following me

[Verse 2]
There was the town where I stayed too long
The borrowed voice in a borrowed song
I thank those selves for the ways they tried
Then leave their keys on the other side

[Pre-Chorus]
One clear path where the branches ran
A quiet room I can stand in again

[Chorus]
Goodbye to the lives I never lived
To every almost, every what-if
The maze is smaller than it used to be
I let those roads stop following me

[Bridge]
No need to solve what wasn't mine
No need to carry every sign
I turn my face toward the open gate
And give the lost years back their names

[Outro]
The maze is smaller
I can let it be