[Intro | dark piano | intimate spoken male vocal] Everybody means it when they say “I do.” It’s every day after. [Verse 1 | confessional cinematic rap | rapid internal rhyme | restrained trap percussion] You can feel that future getting closer when you hold her, Hope inside your chest with the weight upon your shoulders. Trying to make a little room for something good to grow, Learning what to carry, learning what to let go. You’ve got history, mistakes that a promise won’t erase, People who might need a little time to find their faith. Let them take it. You can keep on coming through. Trust comes slowly when it’s got some catching up to do. Now the days are getting real, got a reason to be steady, Life won’t stop and wait until you think you’re ready. There’ll be little eyes learning from the way you live, And a thousand ordinary chances to give. Keep the time you said you’d keep, make the call you said you’d make, Put some roots beneath the words before the weather starts to break. There’s a life within your reach, there’s a home you get to build, And the work you do tomorrow gives that hope something real. [Pre-Chorus | strings enter | measured melodic delivery] When the room clears out, When the lights come down, Let the words you say Be the life you make. [Chorus | raw melodic male vocal | memorable restrained hook] Choose each other every day, When the feeling’s strong, when it starts to fade. When you’re tired, when you’re scared, When it takes all you’ve got just to stay right there. Past the flowers, past the vows, Love is what you do right now. When forever feels too far away, Choose each other every day. [Verse 2 | tighter rhythmic delivery | deep sub bass | rising intensity] Some nights it’s the dishes, some nights it’s the rent, Some nights it’s a sentence coming out the way you never meant. Short fuse, long week, both running on fumes, Two different kinds of silence in the very same room. And you’re halfway through a speech you’ve been building in your head, When you finally hear the hurt underneath what she said. Take a breath. Let the silence do a little good. Ask her one more time until you’ve really understood. She’ll have days to cross that distance, you’ll have days to do the same, Keep a little room for kindness when you’re looking for the blame. You can learn a better way to have the hard conversations, Say the thing you’re frightened of without an accusation. Keep the laughing in the kitchen, keep the reaching for her hand, Keep a little curiosity about who she is becoming. You both get to change. Keep making room. Keep finding something new in the person you choose. [Pre-Chorus | percussion pulls back | close vocal] When the room clears out, When the lights come down, Let the words you say Be the life you make. [Chorus | fuller strings | grounded emotional lift] Choose each other every day, When the feeling’s strong, when it starts to fade. When you’re tired, when you’re scared, When it takes all you’ve got just to stay right there. Past the flowers, past the vows, Love is what you do right now. When forever feels too far away, Choose each other every day. [Bridge | piano and low strings | intimate spoken rap] And if the weight gets heavy, You can lean on me. You can call before you’ve found the words. I can listen while you breathe. I see the steps you’re taking, And I believe in you. Whatever comes with this next chapter, I’ll still stand with you. [Final Chorus | building orchestral strings | powerful emotional male vocal] Choose each other every day, When the feeling’s strong, when it starts to fade. When you’re tired, when you’re scared, When it takes all you’ve got just to stay right there. Past the flowers, past the vows, Love is what you do right now. When forever feels too far away, Choose each other every day. [Outro | piano alone | close male vocal] One morning. One promise kept. One more reason to believe. Choose each other every day. I’ll still stand with you.
