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Original Song

Little Choices

An emotional blues-rock song about how love changes through the quiet decisions people make over time.

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Lyrics

The coffee’s hot, your chair’s still empty Morning slips in quiet and slow You kissed me goodbye every morning But never looked back from the road

The front porch light stayed on till midnight Like it knew what I refused to see Funny how a house keeps believing Long after we stop believing

Every night we made decisions Neither one of us could see Yours were measured in the footsteps Mine in what I let them be

You chose distance one more evening I chose hoping you’d come home Funny how two different choices Left us both sleeping alone

Chorus

Love doesn’t leave in one goodbye It leaves in all the little choices One less touch, one more tomorrow One more silence louder than voices

It isn’t one heart breaking overnight It’s a thousand moments nobody notices Love doesn’t leave in one goodbye It leaves in all the little choices

You said we’d find our way together I believed every word was true But somewhere between the talking Our decisions stopped matching the truth

Your image still moves through me Like the wind through the trees Some things never really leave us They just live inside the memories

People think love ends with shouting Or one last slam of the door But by then it’s only leaving It started leaving long before

We always thought the big decisions Were the ones that changed our lives Turns out it was all the little ones Made before we said goodnight

Love doesn’t leave in one goodbye It leaves in all the little choices One less touch, one more tomorrow One more silence louder than voices

It isn’t one heart breaking overnight It’s a thousand moments nobody notices Love doesn’t leave in one goodbye It leaves in all the little choices

No one wakes up planning forever to end No one starts out wanting to be alone

It’s just a decision…

It’s just a decision…

It’s just a decision…

It’s just a decision…

Until one day…

There isn’t another one left to make.