I’D CHOOSE YOU AGAIN
[Intro] [Soft rain against windows] [Faint tape hiss] [Fingerpicked guitar] [Verse 1] Your coffee cup stayed on the shelf Three weeks after you were gone I kept meaning to move it somewhere else Then stopped meaning to at all The house learned your absence slowly Like winter entering the walls And every little thing I never said Started talking after all [Pre-Chorus] You knew when I was disappearing Before I knew it myself I called my distance “independence” You called it asking for help [Chorus] And I’d choose you again God, I’d choose you again Now the noise inside me’s quiet I can finally hear what love meant Not the lightning Not the fear Not the running when you got too near Just your hand reaching back Through all the wreckage I was in And I’d choose you Again [Verse 2] I found your scarf last Sunday morning Still carrying your perfume faintly through And for one unbearable second The room forgot it had lost you You loved me without performance Without keeping score or blame While I kept turning tenderness Into something I had to survive again [Pre-Chorus] Now every mirror in this house Knows the truth I couldn’t face Some people don’t leave because they stopped loving you They leave because love can’t live that way [Chorus] And I’d choose you again Even knowing how it ends Even knowing some regrets Outlive the people who forgive them Because you saw me Clear and plain Before I knew my own real name And if mercy still exists I hope somehow you know this I’d choose you Again [Bridge] [Piano nearly alone] If time is just a river Then I’m standing where we crossed Still watching your reflection move Through everything I lost And if there’s another life somewhere Without fear wearing my skin I hope I find you early And choose you then [Final Chorus] And I’d choose you again On every cold and breaking day Through every locked door in my chest I was too afraid to name Because love was never weakness Love was never something to outrun You were the safest place I ever had And the hardest thing I’ve ever undone So if your ghost still passes softly When this old house settles in I hope it knows I’d choose you again [Outro] [Rain fading] [Soft pedal steel] [Long room reverb] “I was always trying to come home…” 🌙💛
