HALFWAY GONE

[Verse 1] I still remember being twenty-two Thinking fifty belonged to someone else Summer lasted forever Friday nights had no end And every road ahead of me felt longer than myself Now I catch my reflection in a window passing by And sometimes I see my father looking back through my eyes I don't feel old But the years don't care They keep moving even when you don't notice they're there [Pre-Chorus] I kept saying there's still time Like time was something waiting for me [Chorus] I'm halfway gone Maybe more if I'm counting right Half my life became yesterday while I was busy living tonight There are things I still haven't done Words I still haven't said And suddenly forever doesn't feel so far ahead I'm halfway gone And I've only just begun to understand what leaving means [Verse 2] My children know a version of me I never knew when I was their age My parents became old photographs while I was turning the next page There are dreams I quietly buried Not because I stopped believing I just kept telling myself next year until the years stopped asking permission [Pre-Chorus] I used to measure life by everything still left to come Now sometimes I measure it by everything that's already gone [Chorus] I'm halfway gone Maybe more if I'm counting right Half my life became yesterday while I was busy living tonight There are things I still haven't done Words I still haven't said And suddenly forever doesn't feel so far ahead I'm halfway gone And I've only just begun to understand what leaving means [Bridge] I don't fear dying Not like I thought I would I fear the unfinished The phone call I never made The place I never went The “I love you” I thought they already knew I fear another ten years passing as quietly as the last ten did [Break] Maybe the question isn't how much time I have left Maybe it's how much of it I'm finally willing to live [Final Chorus] I'm halfway gone And for the first time that doesn't sound like the end Maybe knowing there's a finish line is how you learn to run again There are people I still need to hold Things I still need to say And if forever isn't mine then I'll stop giving today away I'm halfway gone But I'm still here And tonight that's enough for me [Outro] I spent half my life thinking I had time I don't want to spend the other half thinking the same thing