I woke up in a silence that I didn’t recognize The world kept moving forward while I lived behind my eyes I filled my days with nowhere, drifting miles from who I was Pretending that tomorrow would replace the things I lost I wore routine like armor But it kept me far from life These are the days I didn’t live The mornings I let disappear The nights I spent avoiding feeling Anything that cut too deep These are the days I didn’t live The dreams I left beneath the surface Now I see how time keeps running Even when you’re fast asleep I watched the seasons changing through a window in my chest A life on quiet autopilot, thinking numbness was my rest But every moment wasted now returns to me again A reel of all the chances I could take but never did I thought that being careful Would somehow make me whole These are the days I didn’t live The mornings I let disappear The nights I spent avoiding feeling Anything that cut too deep These are the days I didn’t live The dreams I left beneath the surface Now I see how time keeps running Even when you’re fast asleep If I could shake the version Of myself that stayed so still I’d tell him there is courage In the fear you choose to feel These are the days I didn’t live But I won’t lose the ones that follow I’ll breathe the air I kept resisting Let the colors pull me in These are the days I didn’t live But I won’t spend the last in hiding Time is only worth its heartbeat If you let your life begin
