#fear_of_wrong_choices
#the_person_you_could_have_been
#lost_dreams
#one_life_to_live
#selfdoubt

© 2025, lyrics & arrangement by Sashariel
Project: DIVIDED HORIZONS (DꖾS) (Web: divided-horizons.de)
Album: DARKWATER (EP)
Track #4 - WHAT IF...

[INTRO]
Sometimes I think about
the person I could be…
the things I never tried,
the moments that I didn’t see.

[VERSE 1]
There’s a quiet kind of fear
that follows me at night
the thought that I’ve been walking past
the better parts of life.

[PRE-CHORUS]
And I don’t know why it hits me
harder on these days
when the world is calm around me,
but my heart feels out of place.

[CHORUS]
What if…
I didn’t choose the better way?
What if all the chances I let go
won’t ever come again?
What if…
I could have been someone I miss
if I had stood up stronger
or fought for more than this?
Sometimes I fear
our lives are just one shot
at who we’re meant to be…
and all the lives I never lived
still whisper back
to me.

[VERSE 2]
There were days I stayed in silence
when I should have found my voice.
Times I walked along with others
when I should have made my choice.
I’ve let people shape my journey
more than I meant them to…
and now I’m scared the road I’m on
is one I didn’t choose.

[PRE-CHORUS 2]
And it hurts to think how many
open doors I left behind
the ones that might have led me
to another version of my life.

[CHORUS 2]
What if…
everything I left undone
was the only light that showed me
who I should become?
What if…
I lost myself along the way
slowly taking smaller steps
until I faded out of frame?
Sometimes it feels
our lives are just one shot
at who we’re meant to be…
and every dream I never tried
keeps echoing
in me.

[BRIDGE]
I keep turning back to moments
that were small, but changed my path
the quiet crossroads in my life
I only understood
too late.
And I wonder if our choices
shape us more than we can see
if the person we become
is built from everything
we were too afraid to be.

[FINAL CHORUS]
What if…
the better me is still inside,
waiting for the strength
I hid so many times?
What if…
it isn’t gone, it’s just unseen
a quiet path I lost somewhere
while trying to stay clean?
Sometimes I hope
there’s still a way
to meet who I could be…
before the last of all my chances
fades into
what if
and me.

[OUTRO]
We all get only one lifetime…
and sometimes I still fear
my dreams
will stay dreams....