STILL, I CHOOSE YOU [Section I — Solo Fingerstyle, Intimate Female Vocal] I know the way you close a door When something’s on your mind You know I say, “I’m fine” too fast When fine is always a lie I know the scar above your hand You know the one beneath my heart We stopped pretending long ago That love would leave us without marks [Section II — Bass Enters, Sparse Dry Drums] We’ve said things in the midnight That daylight made us hate We’ve stood on different sides of rooms Too damn proud to cross the space But somehow when the morning came Your hand still reached for mine Not because we never broke— Because we never left it broken. [STOP] And I’d do it all again. [Section III — FULL BAND CRASHES IN] I STILL CHOOSE YOU When loving me ain’t easy When the years start showing And the mirror quits believing When forever isn’t pretty When it’s work and dirt and truth If I had one life Or a hundred to get through— EVERY DAMN TIME… I’D STILL CHOOSE YOU. [Instrumental Surge — Low-Tuned Guitars / Bending Lead] [Section IV — Strip to Steel-String Guitar] Someday your hands might tremble Someday my hair turns gray Maybe we’ll forget the little things We swore we’d never change But if your legs get tired You can lean your weight on mine And if your eyes don’t recognize the room I’ll remind you of our life [Low bass enters] The kitchen where you kissed me The summer we nearly drowned The night we had ten dollars And still painted the whole town All the ordinary moments Nobody else would understand— That’s the stuff forever’s made of. Not diamonds on a hand. [Section V — Slow Build / Shifting Meter] So let the roof start leaking Let the damn car refuse to start Let the world keep throwing punches Till it runs clean out of heart Let time take what it came for Let gravity have its due There’s one thing it can’t decide for me— [FULL STOP] Whether I choose you. [Section VI — CRUSHING FINAL CHORUS] I STILL CHOOSE YOU! When loving me ain’t easy When our bodies carry years And getting older isn’t pretty When forever means forgiveness More than flowers ever could When I know every reason not to— AND EVERY REASON THAT I SHOULD! If I had one life Or a hundred to get through Put me anywhere Any year Any version of me and you— EVERY. DAMN. TIME. I’D STILL CHOOSE YOU! [Extended Instrumental — Sweeping Blues-Rooted Lead / Controlled Feedback] [Section VII — Solo Fingerstyle, Close Vocal] And when there’s more behind us Than there is left to see If somebody asks me What you were to me… I won’t say perfect. [Pause] I’ll say… Mine. And if I got to start again— [Whisper] I’d still choose you. [ONE MASSIVE FULL-BAND HIT — ABRUPT STOP] ***Lyrics by: touché*** ©️2026
