Love That Chooses Me

INTRO — soft

I used to love hearing you say I was your answered prayer

And I believed you when you said that

Somewhere along the way, I learned to be my own

And now I know — I’m my own answered prayer

VERSE 1

You’d look at me like I could read your mind

I’d feel the things you kept hidden deep inside

You’d say, “Stop reading my mind,” but I knew you well

I heard the thoughts you were too afraid to tell

You let me see the parts you tried to hide

The fears and doubts you carried on your own

Then somewhere along the way, something changed

You started hearing things I never said

You stopped asking me and started assuming

And little by little, you pulled away

I told you what I could and couldn’t live through

But you chose to leave while I was working that night

CHORUS

I loved you through the good

I loved you through the doubt

But I can’t keep living with a love

That keeps coming in and out

I choose me

I choose the love that chooses me

The kind that stays, the kind that talks

The kind that meets me when it gets hard

VERSE 2

Remember that walk in the park

When you got on that swing for me?

Then karaoke in the kitchen that night

Laughing at each other, nothing fancy

Those little moments built something real

Something I’ll never say meant nothing

But something real can still fall apart

When fear gets louder than love

I would’ve talked it through

I would’ve met you where you were

But love can’t survive on guessing

When nobody asks what they heard

BRIDGE

We were supposed to talk

I thought you’d come back

I waited for the conversation

But you never came back

You made your choice that night

And I had to make mine

I can’t keep letting love come in and out

Whenever it wants

I loved you enough to let you go

And loved myself enough not to follow

FINAL CHORUS

I choose me

I choose the love that chooses me

The kind that stays, the kind that talks

The kind that doesn’t make me question where I stand

No more in and out

No more wondering what love means

If you’re gonna have my heart

You have to choose me

I choose me

I choose the love that chooses me

And that’s the love I’ll stay with

OUTRO — whispered

Same moon…

Same sky…

Still me…

Still me…