Awake And Unauthorized

I woke up somewhere else,

didn't recognize the view,

Same face inside the mirror,

different things that I knew.

Same hands, different scars,

same name, different weight,

Same clock above the doorway,

different meaning to the date.

I remember chasing answers like they owed me something back,

Had a future drawn in pencil,

watched the rain erase the map.

Thought the road was gonna straighten if I gave it enough miles,

But the distance changed the driver,

not the numbers on the dial.

Now the things I used to pray for don't impress me like

they did, And the things I used to hide from taught me

more than what I hid.

Had to lose a couple versions of the person I had planned,

Just to find the one who finally knows exactly where he stands. I

woke up somewhere else,

Underneath a different sky.

Didn't know the world was changing While I was learning how to

fly.

Everything I thought I wanted

Looks different from up here.

I woke up somewhere else—

And somehow I belong here.

Used to measure every victory by the people who could see it,

Now I build it in the silence,

let the daylight introduce it.

Had a thousand conversations with the man I used to be,

He kept telling me to turn around,

I told him wait and see.

Funny how the smallest choices make the biggest kind of noise,

How a lifetime gets assembled out of ordinary joys.

How the people who once knew you only know the older draft,

And the chapter that you're living doesn't fit the photograph.

I ain't claiming I arrived,

I ain't claiming I was right,

Still got mountains in the distance,

still got questions every night.

But I don't mistake the darkness for the ending anymore,

Sometimes waking up somewhere else means you finally found a door.

Maybe nothing disappeared.

Maybe everything just moved.

Maybe all the roads I lost Were the roads that led me

through.

I woke up somewhere else,

Underneath a different sky.

Didn't know the world was changing While I was learning how to

fly.

Everything I thought I wanted

Looks different from up here.

I woke up somewhere else—

And somehow I belong here.

Same life.

Different eyes.

Whole different world.