This Life Is Me

[Verse 1]
I kept the coat for the life I declined
A little too small, with a ticket inside
There was a town where I might have stayed
A different name on a birthday cake

[Chorus]
I grieve the roads that I never could know
The rooms I passed and the doors left closed
But here is my hand, and here is my breath
This life is the one that answered me back

[Verse 2]
Somewhere I teach, somewhere I roam
Somewhere I never learned this road home
I set those versions down by the gate
They had their own weather, their own kind of fate

[Chorus]
I grieve the roads that I never could know
The rooms I passed and the doors left closed
But here is my hand, and here is my breath
This life is the one that answered me back

[Outro]
The kettle clicks; the morning comes through
I make a place at the table for you
All that I missed, I can let it be
I’m here, I’m here—and this life is me