This Life to Use

[Verse 1]
I pass the old station on my way back home
Past the train I never took, the coast I never roamed
There’s a room in every almost, a name I didn’t learn
I used to count those doorways like debts I had to earn

[Pre-Chorus]
But the years have kept their weather
And I’m standing here, still whole

[Chorus]
All the lives I didn’t live can rest beside me now
Every road I left unopened doesn’t own me anyhow
I am here, with both feet planted, with a heart that still can choose
Let the ghosts of could-have-beens go home—I have this life to use

[Verse 2]
I kept the chipped blue mug, the one you gave in spring
Some small, unplanned beginning can still become a thing
No grand design was waiting, no perfect self to find
Just this day, this honest breathing, and the hands that are mine

[Pre-Chorus]
Maybe I was never missing
Maybe I was on my way

[Chorus]
All the lives I didn’t live can rest beside me now
Every road I left unopened doesn’t own me anyhow
I am here, with both feet planted, with a heart that still can choose
Let the ghosts of could-have-beens go home—I have this life to use

[Outro]
This life to use
This life is mine