Not a Game II

[Verse 1]
I spent years
Counting other people's stars
Wondering why
Mine looked so far

Every smile
Became another race
Till one quiet night
I forgot who I had to chase

[Pre-Chorus]
Funny...
The finish line
Kept moving away
The faster I ran...

[Chorus]
Maybe... life was never a game.
It was only
The story I told

About winning...
About losing...
Till I laid
That story down

And heard
The silence...
Sing

[Verse 2]
Your sunrise
Never stole
My morning

Your road
Never shortened
Mine

We were only
Walking
Different curves
Of the same river

[Instrumental]
(Trumpet answers the vocal.
Upright bass walks slowly.
Brushes only.
Piano leaves generous space.)

[Verse 3]
Some doors
Closed gently
Others
Never opened

Funny thing...
They all
Led me here

[Chorus]
Maybe... life was never a game.
No trophies
No judges
No score

Just another sunrise
Asking
Who will you become
Today?

[Bridge (spoken almost freely)]
Maybe...
The only thing
Worth winning
Was never
Against
Anyone

(Trumpet Solo)
(16 bars. Warm flugelhorn or muted trumpet. Let silence breathe.)

[Final Chorus]
Maybe... life was never a game.
Just a long
Conversation

Between
The world...
And
The heart

Learning
How
To listen

[Outro]
Now
When someone shines
I stop
And look

No envy
No distance
No score

I stopped counting.
(Muted trumpet, 4–8 bars. Final unresolved piano chord.)