I Choose Love - Judy Collins, Ari Hest

Every day we’re given

Another chance to be

Someone good for someone

To give your heart for free

A chance to either fall below

Or better rise above

I choose love

I choose love

We’ve been known to bicker

We’ve been prone to scream

Goin' at each other till we

Fizzle out of steam

Aren’t you tired of dishin’out

The pushes and the shoves?

I choose love

I choose love

We hide from pain, we criticize

We veil the truth, we patronize

To help ourselves traverse

The bumpy ride

Beholden to our wary minds

We go great lengths to be unkind

We’d rather circumvent than walk the line

I haven’t done much giving

Thought mostly of me

Didn’t want to notice

What isn’t hard to see

What’s easiest to actualize

And rarely spoken of

To choose love

To choose love

A chance to either fall below

Or better rise above

I choose love

I choose love

I choose love

I choose love