LYRICS
[Intro — low, gravel, almost a hum; organ underneath]
(Mmm…)
“I can’t get enough of you…” (oh, Lord)
“can’t wait to see you…”
two people… finally… (mmm)
[Verse 1 — brooding, low register, restrained]
I was already fallin’ and we hadn’t even met, (no we hadn’t, ooh)
pullin’ up your texts just to see your face again.
You was infiltratin’ soft, called me your “heart hacker,”
and the first thought when I woke was you — nothin’ mattered after.
I told you ’bout the mirror that my mama turned down low,
how the day that she passed, my whole home let go.
You said you knew that ache — “a child, all alone,”
“like I just became an orphan,” with no way back home. (no way home, ooh)
[Pre-Chorus — the build begins, hand-claps coming in]
You make a safe space where I finally breathe, (finally breathe)
you can carry all my weight and you never make me leave —
so lay it down, let the realest of us show, (let it show)
that place where the time slows and only the true us go. (oh, the true us)
[Chorus — full gospel, choir behind, raspy and wide open]
‘Cause you said “I choose you,” and I already fell, (already fell)
I choose you, I choose you — God, I choose you as well.
You make me wanna be a better man, it’s true, (better, oh)
and everything else is just decoration to you.
“I love us,” I love us — and I’m sayin’ it proud, (I love us)
I choose you, I choose you…
I’d choose you over everything, and say it out loud. (I choose you)
[Verse 2 — back down low, smoky]
When somethin’ good happen, you the first one I wanna show, (wanna show you)
start a movie wishin’ you was here — Cheetos and pickle breath, you know.
I got hugs fallin’ out my pockets for you to take, (fallin’ out, ooh)
“thank you for bein’ you,” girl — you special, no mistake.
You said you could see it, “call myself your wife one day,” (your wife one day)
I want you, I want us — truly, ain’t nothin’ else to say.
And we said “let’s protect it,” and you told me “at all costs,” (at all costs)
two people finally found it — and we ain’t takin’ the loss. (no loss, oh)
[Pre-Chorus]
You make a safe space where I finally breathe, (finally breathe)
you can carry all my weight and you never make me leave —
so lay it down, let the realest of us show, (let it show)
that place where the time slows and only the true us go. (oh, the true us)
[Chorus — bigger]
‘Cause you said “I choose you,” and I already fell, (already fell)
I choose you, I choose you — God, I choose you as well.
You make me wanna be a better man, it’s true, (better, oh)
and everything else is just decoration to you.
“I love us,” I love us — and I’m sayin’ it proud, (I love us)
I choose you, I choose you…
I’d choose you over everything, and say it out loud. (I choose you)
[Bridge — strip it down to voice and organ, raw and trembling, then build]
You said, “thank you, God, for placin’ him in my life,” (in my life)
“we’ll have more good days than bad” — and you’ll talk to me right. (talk to me right)
You said you got better so you’d draw the love you