Lyrics: Choices

It's the choices that you make
And the ones that you don't
That define what you will be
What you are and what you seek

All the promises you've kept
And the ones that you break
All the things that you have
bound-up, a force that wields (?)

Every nexus on the road
Everything branching path
Means a choice you can't refuse
Even choosing not to choose

For the now becomes the past
You have passed the node
And to when can be
A different way to lose

It's so hard to see ahead
Though behind it is clear
If you'd only known that then
But there is no start again

You cannot erase the stains
On the life you have lead
And the path of now
Will chance the path of when

All the things you can't forget
All the harm that you've done
When you fail to be a friend
When you broke but did not mend

Can you learn the lesson there
Do just more than just regret
Or deceive yourself
With all that you pretend?

[interlude]

It's a spiral helix flow
Never twice the same
Only once you pass this way
You can never hope to stay

Let the chisel carve the stone
From the best that you know
For you scope tomorrow
By your choice today