I CHOSE THIS LIFE
[Verse 1]
There was a window behind me,
and darkness on the road.
I could have climbed back through that frame,
back to the life I’d known.
You had no house to promise me,
no certainty in sight—
only your hand reaching for mine
and a future we might write.
[Pre-Chorus]
We had no map for morning,
no promise we’d be fine.
But somewhere in that little home,
I saw your life with mine.
[Chorus]
So I chose this life.
I chose your hand.
I chose to build beside you
with no perfect house or plan.
I chose the empty room,
the years we couldn’t know.
I chose the man beside me
and the family we would grow.
And when loving wasn’t easy,
when the years demanded more,
I remembered that young woman
who chose not to close the door.
I chose this life—
and I chose it evermore.
[Verse 2]
We started out with almost nothing,
sweet potatoes in a worn-out pot.
You built the chairs, you built the table
from the little that we got.
That humble shelter kept on growing,
one day, one dream, one prayer.
Then children’s voices filled the rooms,
and suddenly—we were there.
Maybe love songs are not written
only out of perfect rhymes.
Maybe they are built together,
lived one ordinary day at a time.
[Chorus]
And I chose this life.
I chose your hand.
I chose to build beside you
when we barely had a plan.
I chose the little shelter,
then watched our whole world grow.
Through every joy and sacrifice,
I never let it go.
[Bridge]
Sixty years—
Look at what became
of one courageous choice,
one little home,
one woman and one man.
A chair.
A table.
A bed.
A family.
Then years became memories,
and memories became our story.
And now your daughter sings the song
your brave young heart began.
[Final Chorus]
You chose this life, Mama—
then chose it every day.
Through the work,
through the waiting,
through whatever came your way.
You kept that little vision.
You kept your secret flame.
You made a home from almost nothing
and gave that home our names.
And everything I am becoming
still carries something you—
the woman who could write,
the woman who could dream,
the woman who could fight
to make a vision true.
[Outro]
Once, there was a window.
Once, there was an uncertain road.
Once, a young woman looked ahead
and chose.
Sixty years later—
Mama,
look at us.
The little home became a lifetime.
And the choice you made for love
became all of us.
Your love song
is still playing.
Happy Birthday Mamma