No choice

To Breathe You left me no choice…
(yeah… yeah…)
so I walk away.
(mm…) No words for what was.
(nothing left…) No more to say.
(no more… no more…)
(vocal run under “no more”: airy “ahhh…") I think our hearts
walked away
before we ever reached the ending.
(echo whisper: “somewhere… somewhere…") We kept showing up
out of memory,
not love.
(soft double: “not love… not love…") I got tired of him
treating me wrong—
tired of asking for softness
like it was too much.
(echo airy: “too much… too much… ahh…") My tears stayed longer
than he ever did.
(ad-lib low hum under “longer… longer…") I don’t need closure
(whisper run: “don’t need it… don’t need it…") I needed consistency.
(soft airy double: “where were you… where were you…") I explained my pain
to someone committed
to misunderstanding me.
(echo airy under: “you never heard me… you never…") I won’t stay where I’m unseen
(layer airy doubles: “unseen… unseen…") I won’t shrink just to keep the peace
(run under “peace”: “mm-mm… keep it…") If loving you costs me me
(soft whisper double: “costs me… me…") I let it go…
yeah, I let it be.
(vocal run airy: “let it be… breathe… ahhh…") I chose someone else.
(whisper run: “I did… mm…") Not because it was right—
but because I was tired
of crying in the same place.
(soft echo: “same place… same place…") He wasn’t the answer.
(ad-lib low hum: “nah…") Just a pause.
(soft airy repeat: “just a pause…") A different kind of wrong
that didn’t know my history.
(echo under “didn’t know me…") That wasn’t revenge.
(whisper echo: “no… no…") That was exhaustion.
(airy double: “so tired… so tired…") I didn’t leave to replace him.
(soft whisper repeat: “never that… never that…") I left to breathe.
(vocal hum under “breathe… breathe…") I won’t stay where I’m unseen
(layer airy doubles: “still unseen… unseen…") I won’t lose myself to make you stay
(whisper run under: “I won’t… won’t…") If loving you costs me me
(echo airy double: “costs me… everything…") I walk away…
I choose me.
(soft layered run: “choose me… choose me… ahhh…") This isn’t anger.
(whisper under: “nah… nah…") It’s clarity.
(airy echo: “so clear… clear…") You left me no choice.
(whisper: “you didn’t…") So I walked away.
(echo: “walked away… away… fade…")