Love Is The Choice

[Verse] Love is a choice, not a feeling or ability Or a tool to be wielded for relationship utility [Verse 2] Nor is love a release of chemicals churning That alter the states of our brains seen stimulating [Verse 3] Love is a choice, a decision we make everyday Think about that, you'll come to see it my way When you decide to compare her to her mother And she decides not to beat you with her hair dryer Even though she easily can [Verse 4] And when she chastises you for not being a real man Maybe then you'll know where you stand It comes down to a choice To forgive or forget To look past it To learn from a mistake Love is a choice you decide to make [Verse 5] Every night you're kept up late by his snoring Every time you force yourself through a story so boring [Verse 6] Whenever she rattles on about her friends And whether or not you stay together in the end Love is a choice that never stops demanding [Verse 7] And as fascinating as it seems it requires careful handling And if you're no good at decision making You'll find that the choices can be quickly fleeting Never appearing again [Bridge] Love is a choice When he decided to tell you he wished you were never born And for ten whole years your relationship remained torn Until you decided to forgive what he could never forget What he could never take back but wished he could omit Love was the choice that she made that night When he told her that this time he would do things right And even though he choked her within inches of her life She still decided not to grab the knife And so it sat silent in the drawer by her bed stand [Verse 8] Because love is the decision that we make time and time again against our best insights [Bridge] Love is a choice When he decided to leave her When he tired of being the receiver of her lies So that she might decide not to be the deceiver and try So that when she met another guy as good as the one that she harmed She might decide to right her wrongs and walk arm in arm An honest believer Love is the decision to get up early every Sunday Fall to your knees and pray [Verse 9] And yet you might still say that love is a chemical reaction churning An intoxicating substance for which our brains are forever yearning [Verse 10] But tell me again where all that dopamine goes Watch as all that oxytocin flies out the window When a wife becomes a widow and must bury her own Does the decision to love stay tethered to a simple chemical [Verse 11] And love as a feeling couldn't be less clear When he made the choice to whisper in her ear The last words she would ever hear If I can't have you then no one else can either [Verse 12] And love as an ability only works if you decide to practice understanding And even then you are still choosing to limit yourself to the capacity of what your mind can imagine When love is a choice that can exceed even that [Outro] Love is a choice we must make everyday