The Ground I’m Standing On

[Verse 1] I pass the station where I almost left A paper cup, the rain along the curb Some other life still wears my borrowed coat And says the things I swallowed back at birth [Pre-Chorus] I used to count the doors I didn’t try As if the unopened ones were mine [Chorus] For every life I never got to live I grieve a little, then I let it drift I’m here, with both my hands, my ordinary days The one who stayed is worthy of a place I can’t be every road beneath the sun But I can love the ground I’m standing on [Verse 2] The old guitar still leans beside the stairs I never learned the song I meant to play But someone laughs at breakfast in this house And I am glad I didn’t miss today [Pre-Chorus] No map could hold the person I became No wrong turn takes the good out of my name [Final Chorus] For every life I never got to live I grieve a little, then I let it drift I’m here, with both my hands, my ordinary days The one who stayed is worthy of a place I can’t be every road beneath the sun But I can love the ground I’m standing on [Outro] This life is small enough to hold And mine enough to call my own