Single · October 13, 2026
There Has To Be More
A modern rock song about accepting life's unanswered questions, making peace with the past, and choosing the road ahead.
- Artist
- TheShokesProject
- Format
- Single
- Released
- October 13, 2026
- Length
- 5:52
- Available on
- Spotify, YouTube
The story
What if you never get the answers to the questions that shaped your life?
There Has To Be More is about the years we can't reclaim, the losses we can't explain, and the doors that closed without answers.
Not every hurt has a purpose. Not every ending makes sense. And you don't have to rewrite the past to justify the cost.
You can stop looking backward for permission to move forward.
Lyrics
There's a mark beside the doorway
From the years we measured there
A photograph turned backward
On the shelf beneath the stairs
I stopped there for a moment
With my fingers on the frame
Funny how a room remembers
Things we never learned to name
I spent years outrunning yesterday
Believing distance made me new
But the farther I kept running
The more of me I carried through
What was it all preparing me for?
All the years I can't reclaim
All the doors that closed behind me
All the things I couldn't change
I thought the past would make it clear
Give me one good reason why
Now I don't need it to explain
The life I'm choosing this time
What was it all for?
What was it all for?
There's a little more gray in the mirror
And less I need to prove
Some doors closed without an answer
Some I never walked back through
I remember what it cost me
I remember what I lost
I won't dress it up as wisdom
Just to justify the cost
Maybe I was never meant to know
Why some things had to end
Maybe I can face tomorrow
Without asking where it's been
What was it all preparing me for?
All the years I can't reclaim
All the doors that closed behind me
All the things I couldn't change
I thought the past would make it clear
Give me one good reason why
Now I don't need it to explain
The life I'm choosing this time
What if nothing was promised?
What if nothing was planned?
What if I've been waiting all these years
For an answer no one has?
Maybe it wasn't leading somewhere.
Maybe I can choose where I go.
What was it all preparing me for?
I don't ask the same way now
I can't change the years behind me
But I choose what happens now
I won't turn the hurt to glory
I won't pretend the losses were fair
I'll take the life that's still before me
And see what I can make of it
What was it all preparing me for?
Maybe I don't need to know
I've spent long enough looking backward
Now I'm ready for the road
I pass the shelf again
My fingers touch the frame
I leave the photograph turned over
There's nothing I need to change
