Controlled choice

Verse 1

Can’t be controlled, I snapped the leash

No hand on me, no puppetry

Learned how to sit with the silence

Now solitude don’t threaten me

I don’t cling, I don’t fold

I don’t beg just to feel less cold

I stood alone in the worst of me

That’s how I learned self-control

I don’t chase, I don’t plead

I don’t stay where I’m not at peace

I’ve been empty, I’ve been whole

I won’t bleed just to feel complete

Hook (Aggressive / chant-ready)

Don’t need you — I choose you

Say it loud, say it true

I don’t fear absence

I’ve been gone, I’ve been through

Not gonna stay to fill a void

I don’t love just to avoid

Don’t need you — I choose you

That’s a choice, not a wound

Verse 2

I seen people die in relationships

Alive but chained by attachments

Stay out of fear, call it loyalty

That ain’t love, that’s a habit

I don’t need saving, don’t need proof

I don’t need touch just to feel approved

If I give you my time, my name, my truth

Understand what I lose

I don’t panic when it’s quiet

I don’t crumble when you go

I learned strength in the absence

Now I move with a code

Hook

Don’t need you — I choose you

Difference clear in the tone

I don’t fear absence

I built me on my own

Not gonna stay to fill a void

I don’t fake love just for noise

Don’t need you — I choose you

If I’m here, it’s controlled

Cold Break (beat strips back — deadpan)

I don’t feel loss, I calculate

I don’t fall back, I isolate

Absence wasn’t pain, it was practice

I amputated need, that’s the tactic

I choose you, but I stay untied

’Cause needing once almost cost me my mind

Final Hook (beat slams back in)

Don’t need you — I choose you

That’s a flex, not a plea

I don’t fear absence

I survived it in me

Not gonna stay to fill a void

I don’t love out of need

Don’t need you — I choose you

That’s the loudest loyalty