[Verse 1]
Your jacket's still on my chair
I leave it there on purpose
Your name hits like a flare
But I don't chase the hurt this time
I used to call your phone
Till my thumb got tired
Now I walk back home
With my head up higher
[Pre-Chorus]
I miss you, yeah, I do
But I miss me too
I'm done bending into shapes
To fit a breaking truth
[Chorus]
I choose myself tonight
I choose myself tonight
I let you go in the dark
And I keep my own light
I choose myself tonight
I choose myself tonight
Heart still aches, but I'm alive
(I'm alive)
[Drop]
Oh-oh, I'm back in my body
Oh-oh, I don't need sorry
Oh-oh, I found my way home
Home, home, home
[Verse 2]
Your shadow on the wall
Used to make me fold
Now I stand ten feet tall
Even when the room feels cold
I keep your old key
In a drawer with the dust
Not because you own me
But because I chose to trust
[Pre-Chorus]
I miss you, yeah, I do
But I miss me too
I'm done bending into shapes
To fit a breaking truth
[Chorus]
I choose myself tonight
I choose myself tonight
I let you go in the dark
And I keep my own light
I choose myself tonight
I choose myself tonight
Heart still aches, but I'm alive
(I'm alive)
[Bridge]
If love was a lesson
Then pain was the page
I read it, I kept it
And I turned the page
No more waiting at the edge
No more living half a life
I can miss your hands
And still save my life
[Final Chorus]
I choose myself tonight
I choose myself tonight
I let you go in the dark
And I keep my own light
I choose myself tonight
I choose myself tonight
Heart still aches, but I'm alive
(I'm alive)