[Intro - Spoken] This is a message for the quiet parts of you. Take a breath, and listen close. [Chorus] I am who I choose to become, A thousand roads beneath one sun. When the world says I am only passing through, I find my way by what I know is true. [Verse 1] I count the mornings by the cup beside my bed, The little notes I meant to send, the words I left unsaid. I have carried every bruise like a map beneath my skin, And every time I lost my way, I learned where to begin. [Pre-Chorus] You don't have to see the whole horizon, Just take the next step into view. [Chorus] I am who I choose to become, A thousand roads beneath one sun. When the world says I am only passing through, I find my way by what I know is true. [Verse 2] The old house holds the shape of every winter we endured, A chipped blue bowl, your father's chair, the latch that never cured. You sat beside me in the kitchen while the kettle slowly sighed, And said the heart can change its country without leaving home behind. [Bridge] If I could give you one thing, It would be the room to breathe, A hand to hold at daybreak, And the courage to believe. All the names they gave us fall away, Like coats we don't need anymore. [Chorus] I am who I choose to become, A thousand roads beneath one sun. When the world says I am only passing through, I find my way by what I know is true. [Instrumental] [Verse 3] Now the years have turned the garden wall a softer shade of gray, The climbing rose still finds a crack and takes the light it can. I keep your letter in the drawer beneath the folded plans, Its paper worn where I have read the line: begin again. [Final Chorus] I am who I choose to become, A thousand roads beneath one sun. When the world says I am only passing through, I find my way by what I know is true. And when the night is wide and the road is hard to see, I'll keep a little faith in who I'm learning how to be. [Outro] You don't have to see the whole horizon. Just take the next step into view.
