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

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