[Intro: filtered male vocal, female echoes]
Choose me...
Not only when you need me.
Choose me...
Oh-oh, oh-oh.
[Verse 1]
You pull me close, then turn away,
Give me a night, take back the day.
I know the warmth beneath your skin,
I never know who you're letting in.
You wear my kiss, you hide my name,
Then act surprised I feel the shame.
I learned to live on little signs,
A little yours, but never mine.
[Pre-Chorus]
When the music dies,
Will you hold on?
When you close your eyes,
Am I already gone?
I can feel your heartbeat,
But I can't feel you.
Tell me with your whole heart
What your hands won't do.
[Chorus: soaring male lead, female responses]
Only when you're lonely,
Only when you're low,
You put your arms around me
Like you'll never let me go.
Only when you're lonely,
Never when you're free.
I don't need another body,
I need you to choose me.
Choose me! (All of me!)
Choose me! (Not halfway!)
Come to me completely
Or let me walk away.
[Post-Chorus: piano riff, stacked vocals]
Ah-ya, ah-ya, ah-ya, ah!
Am I the one or just someone?
Ah-ya, ah-ya, ah-ya, ah!
I'm not a place to come undone.
[Verse 2]
You love the way I make you feel,
Until I ask to make it real.
You know the parts of me to touch,
Then say I'm asking for too much.
You take my hand when no one sees,
Then make a stranger out of me.
How do you hold me through the night,
Then leave me out in broad daylight?
[Pre-Chorus: drums build]
When the music dies,
Will you hold on?
When you close your eyes,
Am I already gone?
No more almost loving,
No more borrowed heat.
Put your heart beside mine,
Not your guilt on me.
[Chorus: full beat]
Only when you're lonely,
Only when you're low,
You put your arms around me
Like you'll never let me go.
Only when you're lonely,
Never when you're free.
I don't need another body,
I need you to choose me.
Choose me! (All of me!)
Choose me! (Not halfway!)
Come to me completely
Or let me walk away.
[Breakdown: kick drops, intimate vocal]
I made myself so easy
You forgot that I could leave.
I kept forgiving everything
To give you room to breathe.
But I was running out of air.
You never even knew.
I don't hate you for not loving me.
I hate pretending that you do.
[Build: rising synths]
All of me, all of me,
Nothing left to prove.
All of me, all of me,
Now it's yours to lose.
Choose me now!
Every part, or none at all.
[Final Chorus: higher, ad-libs]
Only when you're lonely,
Only when you're low,
You put your arms around me
Like you'll never let me go.
Only when you're lonely,
Never when you're free.
I don't need another body,
I need you to choose me.
Choose me! (All of me!)
Choose me! (Not halfway!)
Come to me completely
Or let me walk away.
[Outro: echoes over piano]
Choose me...
Or watch me choose myself.
Oh-oh, oh-oh.
Choose me...
Or watch me choose myself.