The only way I could find

🎶 The Only Road I See 🎶

(Verse 1)

The path ahead is steep and cold, a landscape dressed in grey

It's not the future that I dreamed of, not the place I wished to stay

If you think I chose this heavy burden, this horizon built of dread

You don't know the silent calculation running through my head.

I've checked the map a hundred times, looked down each turning lane

There's only one road leading out of this relentless rain.

(Chorus)

Oh, surely if I had another choice, a single open door

I wouldn't stand here on this cracked foundation, begging for more.

Believe me, if there were a softer option, a clear and sunny way

I'd take it in a flash, I wouldn't pause, I wouldn't have to pray.

This isn't preference, this is necessity's sharp knife

The only road I see is the one I walk to save my life.

(Verse 2)

The critics watch from cozy rooms, they say, "Why don't you pivot?"

"There's always freedom," they declare, "a chance to rearrange it."

They don't see the bolted exits, the bridges burnt behind

The price of every other 'easy' path that I could find.

I've run the numbers, weighed the risk, I've prayed for some release

But every alternative is worse, or simply doesn't exist.

(Chorus)

Oh, surely if I had another choice, a single open door

I wouldn't stand here on this cracked foundation, begging for more.

Believe me, if there were a softer option, a clear and sunny way

I'd take it in a flash, I wouldn't pause, I wouldn't have to pray.

This isn't preference, this is necessity's sharp knife

The only road I see is the one I walk to save my life.

(Bridge)

It's not a willing sacrifice, this lack of liberty

It's a surrender to the simple fact of what has to be.

No second thoughts, no looking back, no agonizing strife

'Cause when the choices dwindle down, the decision leaves your life.

(Chorus)

Oh, surely if I had another choice, a single open door

I wouldn't stand here on this cracked foundation, begging for more.

Believe me, if there were a softer option, a clear and sunny way

I'd take it in a flash, I wouldn't pause, I wouldn't have to pray.

This isn't preference, this is necessity's sharp knife

The only road I see is the one I walk to save my life.

(Outro)

Yeah, the only road I see...

It's the only one that's left for me...

No choice but this.