I Choose Me

(Verse 1)

I don’t wake up with your name in my chest

Don’t check the cracks just to see what’s left

I made a home in the quiet inside

Learned how to stay when I used to run and hide

I used to chase every almost love

Try to be less just to feel enough

Now I breathe, now I trust

I am more than what I lost

(Pre-Chorus)

I don’t need closure

I don’t need proof

I don’t need you to see the truth

(Chorus)

I choose me

Every time, no apologies

I choose peace over maybes

I choose love that won’t leave

I don’t bend, I don’t bleed

Just to be somebody’s need

I choose me

Yeah, I choose me

(Verse 2)

I don’t rewrite what we were before

I thank the hurt, then I close the door

Every scar taught me how to stand

How to hold my heart with my own two hands

I don’t need saving, I don’t need war

I know what my worth is fighting for

I don’t fear the silence now

It sounds like freedom somehow

(Pre-Chorus)

I don’t chase shadows

I don’t stay small

I don’t answer every call

(Chorus)

I choose me

Every time, no apologies

I choose peace over maybes

I choose love that won’t leave

I don’t bend, I don’t bleed

Just to be somebody’s need

I choose me

Yeah, I choose me

(Bridge)(gentle → lift)

I forgive the girl I used to be

For all the nights she couldn’t sleep

She did the best she knew how

And I’m standing with her now

I don’t regret the tears I cried

They taught me how to stay alive

I don’t need to prove a thing

I already win

(Final Chorus)(soaring but calm)

I choose me

Every time, intentionally

I choose truth over safety

I choose all of me

I don’t break, I don’t leave

Just to keep somebody pleased

I choose me

Yeah, I choose me

(Outro)

No more almost

No more maybe

I found the love that stays

It’s me