The lives we never lived

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There’s a house on a street I’ve never known

With a porch and a light always left on

Somewhere there’s a version of me

Who never left that small town scene

Maybe he learned to fix old cars

Maybe he never chased these scars

Maybe he sleeps a little more

Than the man I became searching for

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Every road I walked away from

Still exists somewhere

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All the lives we never lived

All the chances we forgave

Every door we never opened

Every risk we were afraid

But the truth inside this heart

Is simple as it is

The life I found with you

Is worth the lives we never lived

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There’s a city where I stayed too long

A dream that faded in a song

Somewhere there’s a different man

Who never slipped through his own hands

Maybe he never broke apart

Maybe he guarded his own heart

But maybe he never learned

The love you gave that I had to earn

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Every road I walked away from

Led me here somehow

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All the lives we never lived

All the chances we forgave

Every door we never opened

Every risk we were afraid

But the truth inside this heart

Is simple as it is

The life I found with you

Is worth the lives we never lived

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If time rewound

And fate was changed

If every road

Rearranged

I’d still find you

Somehow

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All the lives we never lived

All the paths we couldn’t see

All the dreams we left behind

Led you here to me

And if the world began again

Just the way it did

I’d still choose this life

Over the lives we never lived

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