Verse 1
I used to think the good things gathered
Like candles on a birthday cake
One more dream, one more city
One more yes I got to say
I got good at adding futures
Like none of them would overlap
Never thought that having choices
Could make a full life feel like lack
Pre-Chorus
Now every road I want
Starts taking me somewhere else
And I hate how growing up
Keeps asking what I can’t keep
Chorus
I built my whole life out of “and”
Nobody warned me about “or”
Stay a little longer here
Or go live the life I’m reaching for
Love this place and love who’s in it
Want this life and still want more
I built my whole life out of “and”
Now everything is asking me for “or”
Verse 2
There’s a room I haven’t woken in
There’s a morning I don’t know
There are names we haven’t chosen
There are cities left to call home
Some nights I want our same old ceiling
Some nights somewhere I don’t know
Funny how the hardest choices
Come when both lives feel like home
Pre-Chorus
I thought I’d know by now
Which wanting mattered more
But every answer closes
Something I was reaching for
Chorus
I built my whole life out of “and”
Nobody warned me about “or”
Stay a little longer here
Or go live the life I’m reaching for
Love this place and love who’s in it
Want this life and still want more
I built my whole life out of “and”
Now everything is asking me for “or”
Post-Chorus
And I want both
God, I want both
That’s the trouble
I want both
Bridge
Maybe there isn’t one right answer
Maybe that’s the part that hurts
Maybe every life gets smaller
Every time it finally works
Maybe choosing isn’t betrayal
Maybe leaving doesn’t erase
Maybe I can miss a life I never lived
Without wishing mine away
Final Chorus
I built my whole life out of “and”
Maybe “or” is not the end
I can choose what comes tomorrow
Without undoing where I’ve been
I can love the road behind me
And the road I’m heading toward
Maybe life can ask me “or”
And my heart can answer “and”
Outro
If I miss it, I’ll miss it
If I change, I’ll change
I can love two lives at once
Even if I live just one.
