Never Lost
Lyrics
I walked through the silence, the color was gone,
The echoes of laughter had all moved on.
All those times I came here, just to find nothing,
Nothing at all — only shadows and suffering.
I cried the last of it out under broken skies,
Asked the dark, “How could this happen to my life?”
No spark, no fight, I had nothing left in me,
An empty heart adrift at sea.
Will this pain never end? I whispered to the wind,
And somewhere far away, I heard a voice begin —
Soft and quiet, a lovely warm sound,
A child lost — but now being found.
I thought I’d lost it all,
But hope was never gone.
Just hidden beneath the hurt,
Waiting to carry me home.
Now I see the light in the cracks of my soul,
It was me all along — the part I let go.
I choose to live, I choose to rise,
My life is my own — I choose life.
There was a time I no longer cared,
Drifted through days as if unaware.
The world kept turning, I stood still,
Frozen beneath the weight of my will.
But then a whisper said, “You are enough.”
A tiny sliver of hope — that was enough.
And the best sliver grew into something enormous,
A sun from the ashes, a life reborn within us.
It was like being found by a guiding hand,
A voice that said, “You still can stand.”
No one could fix me, no one but me —
And that truth set my spirit free.
I thought I’d lost it all,
But hope was never gone.
Just hidden beneath the hurt,
Waiting to carry me home.
Now I see the light in the cracks of my soul,
It was me all along — the part I let go.
I choose to live, I choose to rise,
My life is my own — I choose life.
And in that moment, I finally knew —
Nothing as beautiful as me should lose view.
Every scar, every tear was the map of my climb,
Leading me back to this heart of mine.
I held on through the storm, through the fear, through the night,
And found out that hope had never left my sight.
I thought I’d lost it all,
But hope was never gone.
It lived in the quiet, it lived in the song.
The child I was has found a guide,
And the grown heart says, “I’m still alive.”
Now I see the dawn through the cracks in the pain,
I’m standing, I’m breathing — I’m whole again.
I choose to live, I choose to rise,
My life is my own — I choose life.
As long as there’s hope, you have everything.
And I was never lost —
I was only waiting to be found.
Story Behind the Song
“Never Lost” is a song about the kind of darkness that doesn’t show up on the outside.
It was written for the moments when life feels drained of color, when you’re moving through your days on autopilot,
and it seems like whatever spark you once had has completely disappeared.
The opening lines live in that emotional blackout: silence, faded laughter, a heart “adrift at sea.”
It’s the place where you’re still here physically, but inside you feel empty and disconnected.
The question, “Will this pain never end?” isn’t just poetic — it’s a real question a lot of people quietly carry.
The turning point in the song is small on purpose: not a dramatic rescue, but a whisper —
a tiny sliver of hope that says, “You are enough.”
That’s often how change actually starts: not with fireworks, but with a single, soft thought that maybe,
just maybe, you don’t have to stay where you are forever.
The chorus — “I choose to live, I choose to rise, my life is my own — I choose life” — is written as a declaration.
It isn’t pretending the past didn’t hurt or that everything is suddenly easy.
It’s a decision made in full awareness of the scars:
to keep going, to stand back up, to believe that your story isn’t over yet.
One of the key ideas in this song is that hope was never actually gone;
it was “hidden beneath the hurt.” The scars, the tears, the late nights — they become a map,
not proof that you’re broken beyond repair. They lead you back to your own heart,
to the part of you that still wants to live, to try, to love, to create.
The final lines say, “As long as there’s hope, you have everything. And I was never lost —
I was only waiting to be found.” That isn’t just about being found by someone else;
it’s about finding yourself again. This song is a reminder — for anyone who needs it —
that if you’re still here, there is still a future, and your choice to keep going matters.