I Choose You Back

[Intro]
[Clean guitar, soft electric violin]

[Verse 1 — Woman's voice steady but trembling at the edges]

I’ve walked through hell with my hands untied,  
Carried my ghosts like they were mine to hide.  
I learned to stand when the ground gave way.
But no one asked if I was okay.  

[Pre‑Chorus]
[soft harmony rising, instruments building]
So if you come back with your shadows,  
I won’t turn you from the door.  
If you fall through the static,  
I’ll meet you on the floor.  

[Chorus — Woman lead, man echo]
You take the weight of my past in your hands 
You've held it all along.  
You wear my scars like embers in sand.
They’re where my strength was born.  
If this is war, then love is my truth.
And I’ll stand in it with you.  
Because every scar on me you choose…  
I choose you back. I choose you too.  


[Guitar swell, heartbeat kick drum]

[Verse 2]
[Woman, steady guitar and drums]
I’ve been the fire, the fury, the fall,  
The girl who rose when she lost it all.  
But you saw the parts I never let breathe—  
The soft, the scared, the broken in me.  

[Pre‑Chorus]
[Woman] So if you come back not perfect,  
I won’t ask you to pretend.  
Just say my name with love in your breath. 
I’ll be there again.  

[Repeat chorus]

[Guitar solo, heavy drums, synth]

[Bridge — Duet, intimate, stripped back]
[Woman] I don’t need perfection. I just need real.  
[Man] Then take my truth and let it heal.  
[Woman] We weren’t born from peace—but we rose with the flame.  
[Man] And I’ll burn bright if you call my name.  So call my name.

[Final Chorus] 
[ Full lift, both voices soaring]

[Woman] You take the weight of my past in your hands—  

[Man] I’ll carry what you can’t.  

[Woman] You wear my scars like embers in sand. 

[Man] They’re proof you will always stand.  

[Pre-Outro, Heavy guitar and drums]

[Man] If this is war, then love is our fuse. 

[Woman] Then light it, I promise I won’t move.  

[Tempo slows, clean guitar and electric violin]
[Man and woman] Because for every scar that you refuse to lose…  

[Woman] I choose you back.  

[Man] I choose you too.  

[Woman] I will always choose you. 

[Woman, spoken softly] I will always choose you. I'll always choose you.
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Outro — Soft, fading, spoken over guitar
(Woman, whisper) You don’t have to be whole to be mine.  
(Man, soft) Then let’s be real, not perfect, this time.

Metal core blues, female and male where indicated