[Intro] I choose. I choose. [Verse 1] I have been the weight I carried. I have been the voice that said I can’t. I have bent myself to fit the room, I have swallowed what I should have sang. I have waited for permission from a world that never gave the word. But something in me older than my fear, something steady as the ground, has been trying to be heard. [Pre-Chorus] I am not the thing that broke me. I am not the years I lost. I am not the night I almost didn’t make it. I choose. I choose to live. I choose. I choose to rise. I choose. I choose to love. I choose. Yo-de-lAY-ee-OOO-de-lAY-hee-OOO! Yo-de-lAY-ee-OOO-lAY-ee-OOO-hee-LAY! [Chorus] I choose to live when living takes everything. I choose to love when love has cost me more than I can say. I choose to rise not because the path is clear but because I am the path. I choose. I choose. Yo-de-lAY-ee-OOO-de-lAY-hee-OOO-lAY! I choose. [Verse 2] Not because it’s easy. Not because the hurt has gone away. Because the part of me that loves is still louder than the part that’s afraid. Because I’ve been to the bottom, and the bottom held. And I found something down there I would not have found any other way. [Pre-Chorus] Not for the perfect version. Not for the frictionless and clean. For the reaching in the dark until the reaching is the thing. [Mantra Build] I choose. I choose the broken open. I choose. I choose the long way home. I choose. I choose. Yo-de-lAY-hee-OOO-de-lAY-EE-oooh! Yo-de-lAY-ee-OOO-hee-LAY-ee-OOO! Yo-de-lAY-ee-OOO-de-lAY-hee-OOO-lAY-EE-oooh! [Chorus] I choose to live when living takes everything. I choose to love when love has cost me more than I can say. I choose to rise not because the path is clear but because I am the path. I choose. I choose. Yo-de-lAY-ee-OOO-de-lAY-hee-OOO-lAY! I choose. [Bridge] The dark is not the opposite of light. It is where the light begins. Every person who ever changed anything woke up in a room that offered them nothing and chose anyway. The choosing is the healing. The choosing is the prayer. The choosing is the only thing that was ever, ever yours. Yo-de-lAY-ee-OOO-de-lAY-hee-OOO! Yo-de-lAY-ee-OOOO-lAY-ee-OOO-hee-LAY-ee-OOO! YO-de-lAY-ee-OOO-de-lAY-hee-OOO-de-lAY-ee-OOO-lAY-EE-oooh!! [Total silence, two beats] [Final Chorus] I choose to live when living takes everything. I choose to love when love has cost me more than I can say. I choose to rise not because the path is clear but because I am the path. I choose. [A cappella, four voices, no instruments] I choose to live. I choose to love. I choose to rise. [Full band returns] I choose. I choose. I choose. [Outro] I choose. yo-de-lay… ee… ooo… Again. [End]
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