I started out inside a race I never chose to run,

A Y-sperm rushed ahead and claimed the place that I'd become.

Born lucky in a land of comfort, care, and open doors,

I stepped into this life by chance, not knowing what it had in store.

A drifting kid with half my mind in distant starry skies,

Too slow for all the others, but too quick inside my eyes.

In some other world I might have broken, missed the rising tide—

But every stumble somehow kept me falling into light.

I keep on stumbling through my life,

Falling forward every time—

No grand design, no guiding line,

Just accidents that turned out right.

Still I’m stumbling through my life…

If I fall for the final time,

I’ll look back and I’ll realize

I made it farther than I ever thought I might.

I crossed an ocean, lost the date, the deadline slipped away,

The college of my hometown drifted slowly out of play.

Another city claimed me, and there you walked into my days—

If I had been on time, I'd live another life today.

It’s strange how fragile all these turning points of living are,

How missing one small moment rearranges who we are.

I never walked in straight lines—barely kept my balance right,

But every stumble seemed to push me somewhere warm and bright.

I keep on stumbling through my life,

Falling forward every time—

No master plan, no steady hand,

Just moments somehow aligned.

Still I’m stumbling through my life…

If I fall for the final time,

I’ll turn back with a quiet smile—

I made it further than I ever thought I might.

Maybe luck’s a compass needle

Spinning circles in the dark,

Yet it pulls me through the chaos,

Leaves a strangely gentle mark.

And when the last fall finds me,

I will greet it without fright—

I’ve been carried by coincidence

Through such an unexpected life.

Still I’m stumbling through my life,

Falling forward every time—

No straightened road, no perfect stride,

Just fragments that combined.

I keep stumbling through my life…

And when the music fades to night,

I’ll know that through each slip and slide

I made this stumbling life turn out just right.