With the Dents and Years

[Verse 1]
I know the route behind my eyes
The worn-out turn, the compromise
A coffee ring beside the sink
A hundred ways to overthink

I wear the hours that made me
The crooked seams, the history
No polished answer in my hands
Just where I am, and where I stand

[Pre-Chorus]
I used to measure every breath
Against a life I hadn't left
Now I can loosen what I hold
And let the ordinary unfold

[Chorus]
I am not a promise waiting
Not a version still creating
I can meet myself right here
With the dents and all the years

I don't need to outrun the shape
Of every choice I couldn't change
This is my life, these are my days
I can love them as they are made

[Verse 2]
The rent is due, the paint is thin
The same old doubt still wanders in
My plans arrive with missing parts
My best intentions lose their starts

But there's a plate I learned to mend
A call I make, a hand I lend
The small things never asked me why
They simply stayed until I tried

[Pre-Chorus]
I used to call the cracks defects
And hide the parts I could protect
Now every mark can tell the truth
A map of what I made it through

[Chorus]
I am not a promise waiting
Not a version still creating
I can meet myself right here
With the dents and all the years

I don't need to outrun the shape
Of every choice I couldn't change
This is my life, these are my days
I can love them as they are made

[Bridge]
Let the unfinished morning in
Let the quiet count as a win
I don't have to earn my name
By becoming someone else again

[Final Chorus]
I am not a promise waiting
Not a version still creating
I can meet myself right here
With the dents and all the years

I don't need to outrun the shape
Of every choice I couldn't change
This is my life, these are my days
I can love them as they are made

[Outro]
Right here, with the dents and years
Right here, with the life I live