**Verse I**
I used to think love was a wound
Something you survive, not something you choose
But you stand like the tide at my feet
Never pulling me under, just teaching me peace
Every quiet moment finally makes sense
When your name rests on my breath
**Pre-Chorus**
If the world goes quiet
I don’t feel afraid
You’re the calm in my chest
Where the noise used to stay
**Chorus**
Still, I choose you
Not out of fear or need
But because my heart
Has learned how to breathe
I don’t fall apart
I don’t lose my truth
I stand in the light
And still, I choose you
**Verse II**
You don’t ask me to be less than I am
You don’t call my strength a sin
Every version of me gets to stay
And somehow I’m more when you’re in
I don’t beg the night to end
I just let the morning in
**Pre-Chorus**
If love is devotion
Let it feel like rest
Not a knife in the ribs
But a hand on the chest
**Chorus**
Still, I choose you
With my eyes open wide
No blood in the promise
No place left to hide
I don’t disappear
I don’t lose my youth
I grow into myself
And still, I choose you
**Bridge (Soft build → swell)**
We don’t burn just to feel alive
We don’t break just to prove we tried
If this is forever, let it be kind
Let it be warm, let it be mine
**Final Chorus (Lifted / Expansive)**
Still, I choose you
In the calm, in the flame
In the ordinary moments
Where the sacred remains
I give you my heart
But I keep it true
I walk beside you
Still, I choose you
**Outro**
If love is a vow
Let it sound like this:
A life that feels gentle
And a future we kiss
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HollowVotive
