Title: The Man I Never Became Verse 1 I took the old dirt road today, Where birds were singing through the pines. The wind was carrying yesterday, Like it had all the time in life. Then someone walked out through the light, A stranger... or so I believed. The closer that he came to me, The harder it got to breathe. Pre-Chorus I've seen those eyes somewhere before, That quiet fire, that steady flame. Then all at once the truth arrived... He wore my face, but not my name. Chorus He was the man I never became, Walking proud through a different rain. Every choice I'd left behind Was standing there in flesh and time. No words were spoken, none were needed, Silence said what hearts believe in. Sometimes the loudest voice you'll hear Is the life that disappeared. Verse 2 He stood as strong as mountain stone, Like mornings never passed him by. While I carried years of storms Hidden underneath my smile. He looked at me, I looked at him, Like mirrors split by fate somehow. Then with one quiet, gentle grin, He simply turned around. Bridge Maybe he was every dream That I traded for another day. Maybe he was nothing more Than the price we sometimes pay. Or maybe every road we leave Keeps walking without us still... Waiting somewhere down the line, Beyond another hill. Final Chorus He was the man I never became, Yet somehow we shared the same name. One heart... two different roads, Two different stories to be told. I kept walking, so did he, Neither asking who we'd be. But every sunrise whispers low... "You're still becoming... don't you know." Outro If you ever meet yourself On a lonely country road... Don't ask where he's been. Ask... where you're willing to go.
