[INTRO] [almost spoken]
There was a moment
I almost let you go…
Not because I stopped loving you,
But because I was tired of letting people in
Just to watch them leave.
Then I looked at us…
And finally, I looked at me.
[VERSE 1][storytelling
Keep your voice low and intimate. Don’t oversing.]
I wrote down every word
Then read our messages again
Through all the hurt I finally saw
Where I had played my part back then
I saw the walls I put between us
The ways my fear made me pull away
And if I wanted something different
I knew I had to change
I knew I couldn’t change our story
Without changing something in me
So I let my guard come down
And faced what I was afraid to see
[PRE-CHORUS][start opening up]
No more trying to be right
No more hiding what we feel
We laid every fear down
And finally learned to heal
[CHORUS][emotional releas]
For the first time
I’m not holding our love alone
I feel you holding it too
Two hearts choosing to stay
When walking away would be easy to do
For the first time
I don’t have to prove what I feel
You’re right here feeling it too
And if we have to grow
Then baby, we’ll grow together
‘Cause I’m choosing you
And you’re choosing me too
[VERSE 2][pull everything back][After the first chorus, drop the intensity.]
A week went by
Somehow we found our way back
No words—just a familiar embrace
We cried before we talked
There was nothing left to hide
Then we laid our hearts bare
And finally saw each other through
You said you felt something
You never thought you’d feel again
I could feel your truth
In the way you held me then
[PRE-CHORUS 2][— bigger than Chorus 1]
We stopped trying to defend
The places where we’d been hurt
We listened without keeping score
And let the truth come first
[CHORUS 2]
Now I see it
We’re not holding this love alone
I feel you carrying it too
Two hearts choosing to stay
When walking away would be easy to do
Now I feel it
I don’t have to prove what I feel
You’re right here showing me too
And if we have to grow
Then baby, we’ll grow together
‘Cause I’m choosing you
And you’re choosing me too
[BRIDGE][strip it down
This is where I would make the production almost disappear.]
You learned to run
I learned how to push
We were both protecting
The parts we didn’t trust
We both knew how to run
Somehow, our hearts learned how to stay
[FINAL CHORUS][your biggest vocal]
Now I know we’re not just holding on
We’re choosing what we’re building
And learning how to love one another
We don’t have to be perfect
We just have to be true
When the old fears come back
We’ll remember what we’ve learned
Somehow, our hearts learned how to stay
[OUTRO][almost a whisper
Don’t belt this.]
Our story.
Our healing.
Our love.
[Pause.]
Our shared memory…
[Longer pause.]
[Almost whispered.]
Only for us.