Album: Sister Pride
Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
They gave me every reason
To stay inside the lines
A piano in the living room
And a future already mine
My father wrote the songs
My mother taught me how to play
They had a plan for my whole life
I had another way
[Pre-Chorus]
I could hear the music calling
From somewhere I had never been
And every time they told me “settle”
I heard something underneath
[Chorus]
I chose the road
I chose the rain
I chose the nights
And the beautiful pain
I could’ve had the easy life
I could’ve had it all
But I’d rather chase the music
Than never hear it call
I didn’t run away
I ran toward what I know
I could’ve stayed where I belonged
But I chose the road
[Verse 2]
I played the rooms they warned me about
With the people they didn’t know
I traded polished concert halls
For places where the wild ones go
I learned that perfect isn’t freedom
And safe don’t make you whole
Sometimes you have to lose the map
To find where you belong
[Pre-Chorus]
My mother cried the first time
She saw me on that stage
My father just shook his head
And said I’d outgrown my cage
[Chorus]
I chose the road
I chose the rain
I chose the nights
And the beautiful pain
I could’ve had the easy life
I could’ve had it all
But I’d rather chase the music
Than never hear it call
I didn’t run away
I ran toward what I know
I could’ve stayed where I belonged
But I chose the road
[Bridge — build]
Maybe I was born too restless
Maybe I was born too free
Maybe all the things they gave me
Weren’t the things I needed
I don’t blame them for the life
They tried so hard to give
They taught me how to play the music
I just chose how I would live
[Guitar Solo]
[Final Chorus — bigger]
I chose the road
I chose the rain
I chose the fire
And I chose the flame
I could’ve had the easy life
I could’ve had it all
But I’d rather fall chasing something
Than never move at all
I didn’t run away
I ran toward what I know
I could’ve lived somebody else’s life
But I chose the road
[Outro]
So if you ask me why I left
Why I traded safe for wild
I’ll tell you what my mother taught me
When I was just a child…
Music isn’t meant to keep you still.
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