Which One Stays

[Verse 1]
I keep a key for every door I made
A name for every room I learned to fake
One asks for water, one asks for a map
One builds a ladder while the other takes it back

[Pre-Chorus]
I count the hours, lose the count again
I feed the little fires with the same two hands

[Chorus]
Which one stays? Which one gets the morning?
I can’t hold every life I keep forming
Pick one thread and the whole seam gives way
Which one stays? I make another today

[Verse 2]
There’s a list of things each version needs
A rent due here, a promise there to keep
I split the bread, I stretch the week too thin
Then draw a fresh outline and move myself in

[Pre-Chorus]
I count the hours, lose the count again
I feed the little fires with the same two hands

[Chorus]
Which one stays? Which one gets the morning?
I can’t hold every life I keep forming
Pick one thread and the whole seam gives way
Which one stays? I make another today

[Bridge]
If I choose, what part of me goes quiet?
If I wait, how many more divide it?
I’m tired of the ledger, tired of the names
Still I sketch a new door in the margin again

[Final Chorus]
Which one stays? Which one gets the morning?
I can’t hold every life I keep forming
Pick one thread, let the rest fall away
Which one stays? I make another today

[Outro]
Another today
Another today