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Lyrics
Verse 1
The place was closing, chairs were upside down
Rain on the windows, last train leaving town
I said, “We should go, we’ve got an early start”
You looked at the band like I was making it hard
Said, “One more song?”
I said, “What’s the plan?”
You shrugged your shoulders—
“Why not, while we can?”
I laughed like it was nothing
You probably meant it that way
I didn’t know six ordinary words
Could change the way I stayed
Pre-Chorus
I’ve spent half my life preparing
For a life that won’t sit still
Maybe there is no right moment
Maybe there is only—
Chorus
Why not, while we can?
Take the long way, miss the turn
Say it now instead of someday
Let tomorrow wait its turn
Stay until they stack the tables
Leave with nowhere else to land
If this moment wants to have us
Why not, while we can?
Why not, while we can?
Verse 2
Now I hear it when I’m packing
And there’s room for one more night
When my mother starts a story
I have heard a hundred times
When a friend says, “I’m in town”
And I’ve got somewhere else to be
When the sensible thing is leaving
And leaving suddenly feels cheap
I used to save the best for later
Like later was a place
Like all the people that I love
Would keep exactly the same face
Pre-Chorus
There are rooms I’ll have to leave
There are doors I’ll have to choose
I could spend my life afraid of change
Or love what I can lose
Bridge
There’ll be a last time for everything
And most of them won’t look like lasts
An ordinary Tuesday
A drive back from your dad’s
A night your oldest friends
Are all somehow in one room
A place you leave completely sure
You’ll come back to it soon
God, I hope I never know them
While they’re happening to me
I don’t want to spend the beautiful
Already missing what it’ll be
I’ve spent years arriving early
To a future running late
Holding happiness at arm’s length
Till I knew how long it’d stay
But love won’t sign a contract
And the years won’t show their hand
So if I love you, let me love you
If I’m scared, I’ll still say yes
I can keep rehearsing endings
Trying to know how all this lands
Or stop asking life to promise me
And be here while I can
Final Chorus
So why not, while we can?
I used to hear a clock inside it
Now I hear an open door
Not a warning that it’s ending
Just a reason to want more
Pull another chair up closer
Say the thing while here we stand
Maybe “always” was the question
And we already had the answer
Look what we have
Look what we have
Why not, while we can?
Outro
You said it once like nothing
I spent years hearing a warning
Now I hear it everywhere
Every light left on
Every plane coming down
Every “stay a little longer”
Every “tell me when you’re home”
Maybe life was never asking
For some better, braver plan
Maybe “while we can” was never
About how little time we have
Maybe it was only saying—
We can
So why not?
While we can.
Details
GeneratedAug 12, 2026
Duration5:12
LanguageEnglish
Style
Euphoric band fun-pop with warm piano, bright guitars, driving wild drums, organ, and a soaring communal finale. Female
Credits
Prompt byMightyShark113
ModelAria v5.5
