This Life Is Mine

[Verse 1]
I kept a key for a town I never chose
A paper map folded beneath my clothes
Somewhere I’m dancing, somewhere I stayed
Somewhere I said the brave thing that day

[Pre-Chorus]
I grieve those doors like rooms I knew
Then turn and find this life came through

[Chorus]
All the lives I didn’t live
Still gather softly at my side
I can love the roads I missed
And let this one be mine
I’m not a shadow of a maybe
I’m here, breathing, getting by
All the lives I didn’t live
Can rest; this life is mine

[Verse 2]
There’s a summer I left in a stranger’s town
A name I almost wore, then laid back down
I bless the hands that let them go
They brought me here, to what I know

[Bridge]
No perfect choice could make me whole
No other self could hold this soul
I meet the morning where I am
And take my own life by the hand

[Final Chorus]
All the lives I didn’t live
Can stand beside me, not decide
I can love the roads I missed
And still enjoy this side
I’m not a shadow of a maybe
I’m here, breathing, open-eyed
All the lives I didn’t live
Can rest; this life is mine

[Outro]
This life is mine
This life is mine