All My Maybes Wear Crowns

Every road I never took seems brighter from here. In my imagination, the lives I never lived wear crowns, untouched by failure or regret. I applaud them all, while the only life I truly lived begins to feel like the one that went wrong. 選ばなかった道は、いつだって眩しく見える。あのとき勇気を出していたら、違う選択をしていたら。思い描いた人生はどれも輝いていて、失敗も後悔も知らない。そんな「もしも」の自分たちに拍手を送るうちに、実際に生きてきた人生だけが、間違いだったように思えてくる。 Lyrics: [Verse 1] The ticket's folded in my coat I never used it, never went I wrote a letter, signed my name Then kept the words I should have sent I told myself the safer road Was all the life that I could bear But every night the roads I lost Come marching in, all wearing crowns [Pre-Chorus] One sings the songs I feared to sing One takes the hand I let slip free One walks away without a wound And all look more like me than me [Chorus] All my maybes wear crowns They never have to choose I give them every road I feared And none of what they'd lose All my maybes wear crowns And I applaud them all I watch them take the stage I built While I stand in the hall [Post-Chorus] Crown them, crown them, lift them high Let them live where none can die Crown them, crown them, make them shine Until I cannot see what's mine [Verse 2] One fills a hall with singing crowds One stands beside a faithful friend One goes where I was scared to go One speaks the words I couldn't send I watch them bow, I clap along I know each perfect line by heart Yet when I ask what happened next The music stops before they start [Pre-Chorus] One parts their lips as if to sing But not a single note comes out The scene resets before a tear Can even touch a painted cheek [Chorus] All my maybes wear crowns They never have to choose I give them every road I feared And none of what they'd lose All my maybes wear crowns And I applaud them all I watch them take the stage I built While I stand in the hall [Bridge] Who crowned them? I did, I did Who kept them safe from getting old? I never showed the doors they closed Or all the hands they couldn't hold Perhaps another road was best I cannot prove that it was not But I forgave each life I dreamed And damned the only one I got [Final Chorus] All my maybes wear crowns They never have to choose I gave them every road I feared And none of what they'd lose All my maybes wear crowns Their perfect voices call I hear the life I could have lived But they never lived at all [Outro] The ticket's folded in my coat I leave it where it's always been The stage is dark, the street is loud And still the chorus follows me #MusicalTheatre #OrchestralMusic #OriginalMusic