**[Intro — whispered / distant]** Two roads. Yellow wood. One body. One choice. **[Verse 1]** Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And I stood there longer than I should, Looking down where the branches close, Trying to see where the future goes. Couldn’t walk both, couldn’t split in two, One road lost, whichever I choose. So I watched that bend disappear, Into the brush, into the years. **[Refrain — low chant]** Way leads on to way. Way leads on to way. You don’t come back. You don’t come back. **[Verse 2]** Then I took the other, just as fair, Green grass breathing in the cold air. Thought maybe no one had been through, Thought maybe this one might be new. But footprints lie. Memory bends. Both roads disappear at the end. Leaves untouched in the morning black, I told myself I could still come back. **[Hook — hypnotic / repetitive]** But way leads on to way, Way leads on to way, Way leads on to way— And you don’t come back. Way leads on to way, Way leads on to way— You don’t come back. **[Breakdown — spoken fragments]** Another day. Another life. Another version of me turning right. One road taken. One road gone. One decision keeps moving on. **[Verse 3]** I’ll tell it someday with a sigh, Ages and ages down the line. Two roads opened beneath those trees, And one became the memory of me. Was it really less traveled then? Does it matter after where I’ve been? We make a story out of the track, Because the road behind won’t take us back. **[Final Hook]** Way leads on to way, Way leads on to way, Way leads on to way— And you don’t come back. I took one road, I left one there. One disappeared into the air. Way leads on to way, Way leads on to way— And that made all the difference. **[Outro — degraded / whispered]** Two roads. One traveler. Two roads. One traveler. The one I took. The one I lost. Way leads on to way. Way leads on to way.
