[Intro] There are lives that live inside a moment Waiting where the moment bends Whole worlds hidden in a heartbeat Whole beginnings without ends [Verse 1] I have carried certain crossroads Long after the roads were gone Kept the shape of unanswered questions Like shadows holding onto dawn Every choice became a window Every window framed a sky And behind each thing I remember Something else had passed me by [Pre-Chorus] Perhaps the past is not a prison Perhaps it never asked me to return Perhaps the roads I left behind me Were never mine to learn [Chorus] Somewhere, every door is open Somewhere, every door is closed Every version holds a meaning Every river finds its course If the universe is endless Then so are the lives we leave I don't have to choose between them I can let them simply be [Verse 2] There are versions of a silence That became a different song Versions of a single heartbeat Where the timing wasn't wrong There are hands I never reached for There are words I never said Somewhere beyond the borders They are living what I left Not as ghosts and not as failures Not as roads I should have known But as fragments of the infinite Finding somewhere of their own [Verse 3] What is regret but imagination Turning backward through the years? Giving shape to vanished futures Giving weight to vanished fears We mistake the road not taken For a place we should have been Never knowing every doorway Opens outward from within Perhaps no life contains perfection Perhaps wholeness asks for less Not to hold the world in one hand But release what we can't possess [Verse 4] But sometimes I still want to scream At the woman I was then For every door I left unopened For every place I should have been How could I have missed the warning? How could I have let it go? How many lives were waiting for me Down the roads I chose to close? And then the anger passes Like weather moving through I see the woman who was standing there She only knew what she knew She wasn't holding all the answers She was choosing with the light That reached her in that moment From the narrow edge of time [Refrain] Then let the years remain unfinished Let the unanswered questions sleep I was never meant to gather Every life I could not keep [Bridge] What if every possibility Was never asking to be mine? What if all the lives I wonder about Are simply other ways that time Learned how to become itself? What if nothing was abandoned When I chose the life I know? What if every unwritten ending Found another place to grow? [Build] Maybe that is what forgiveness is Not changing what came before But knowing every choice I made Was only one shape among many more [Final Chorus] Somewhere, every door is open Somewhere, every door is closed Every version holds a meaning Every river finds its course And if the universe is endless There is room for all of this For the woman I became And the woman I might have been I don't need to find her I don't need to know her name She exists beyond the distance Of the choices that I made And perhaps that is the mercy Hidden underneath it all There was never one perfect ending There was never one life to call [Outro] So I will leave the other windows With their other fields of blue I have this breath This turning This unfinished sky I chose this life And this life chose me [Final Coda] The other roads can keep their mysteries I don't need to follow them I am here And I am at peace [Instrumental Ending] [Soft piano resolves] [Acoustic guitar final chord] [Music stops] [Silence] [END]
