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The one and only 2 by DEFAULT

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The one and only 2

Nostalgic,Female Vocals

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[Verse 1]
At the station where the trains divide,
I held two tickets, couldn’t pick a side.
Photos in a shoebox, attic light in bloom,
A worn map on my lap, corners edged with afternoon.
Aunt said, “Join the line, it’s safe and steady now,”
Dad put his hand on mine and furrowed his brow.
Grandma's vinyl crackle in the kitchen tile,
Whispered rules like weather, calling me to stay awhile.
[Pre-Chorus]
There’s a hush of all their voices, a chorus of “be wise,”
But behind those careful smiles, I see a different sky.
Heartbeats like a metronome, counting out the cost,
I’m learning how to listen to the dreams I almost lost.
[Chorus]
I’m the one and only — not the echo of their name,
I’ll follow the line that leads me home through flame.
They point their fingers, say the path I should have grown,
But I’ll hold my light, and I’ll walk it on my own.
I’ll follow the line that leads me home — I’m the one and only.
[Verse 2]
Sunday dinner plans pinned like pins to a map,
“Marry, study, settle” — their chorus and their clap.
A teacher with a nod, a cousin with a grin,
Every little instruction wrapped around my skin.
I kept a postcard under my pillow, edges frayed with hope,
A childish scrawl of cities where I taught myself to cope.
At night I’d trace the skyline in the margin of a page,
Counting all the ways I could escape this boxed-up stage.
[Pre-Chorus]
They fold their futures neat as linens in a drawer,
They hand me blueprints of a life I didn’t draw.
But there’s a compass in my chest that doesn’t point to fear,
A whisper turning louder: “Child, your path is clear.”
[Chorus]
I’m the one and only — not the echo of their name,
I’ll follow the line that leads me home through flame.
They point their fingers, say the path I should have grown,
But I’ll hold my light, and I’ll walk it on my own.
I’ll follow the line that leads me home — I’m the one and only.
[Bridge]
Packing up a suitcase at the break of dawn,
Old photographs and a sweater I had on.
I leave a note on the table, ink a crooked plea,
“Forgive me for the parts of me I let you keep.”
The porch light blinks like punctuation, the world yawns wide and raw,
I step into the morning with my breath against the door.
This is the flicker, the brave small shove, the first unlisted road,
The moment I became the story that I owed.
[Chorus — Modified]
I’m the one and only — not the echo of their name,
I’ll follow the line that leads me home through flame.
They fold their maps and point the places I should roam,
But I hold my light, and I’ll walk it on my own.
I’ll follow the line that leads me home — I’m the one and only.
[Outro]
There’s a tape-hiss memory of lullabies and doubt,
But every step I take unthreads the lines they drew about.
I carry childhood pictures, the attic’s amber glow,
And the one small truth I learned: I’m more than what they’d know.
I’ll follow the line that leads me home — I’m the one and only.