The City, A Choice

I'm choosing between you
I'm choosing between you and the city

I found a quiet mind in the city
The city did all it could to push me
I held my ground but it took me
Everything I had

The infection in my skin really shook me
Had my [A]theories of what it could be
My calm was [Am7]forged in what would be
The temple of my [A]mind

You will not be [Am]broken by the city
You can always pack it up but now you're thirty
You came here for [Dm7]a ɾeason [C7]now you [A7hear me
You will not be [Am]broken by the city

I'm choosing between you
I'm choosing between you [A7and [Bm]the city
And it's hard to [C7]forgive me
When I follow my [A]own

You're my [A]everything in this city
Changed your whole life here to [C7]suit me
But a tiger lurked within sleeping
And now it's waking up

When it lunged it slashed with fury
Somewhere towards healing you [A7lost me
But I've finally now ɾegained my [A]body
In other ways I'm tɾuly sorry

You will not be [Am]broken by the city
You can always pack it up but now you're thirty
You came here for [Dm7]a ɾeason [C7]now you [A7hear me
You will not be [Am]broken by the city

I'm choosing between you
I'm choosing between you [A7and [Bm]the city
And it's hard to [C7]forgive me
When I follow my [A]own

Choosing between love and [Bm]the city
Heard you [A7say that we need love in the city
Oh please forgive me

The city's a choice and [Bm]you [A7made it
People come and [Bm]go always in tɾansit
Pacific skies did wonders for [Dm7]your spirits
But you've made your choice now just be [Am]explicit
I tɾaded it all [Em]for [Dm7]the city

This quiet mind of mine
Has been making noise this time
And I swear the day I'm losing her
I was [Am7]losing me in kind

What these city lights induce
Is the noise in me and [Bm]you
So tell me what's this quiet mind
Cause I don't practice what I preach to [C7]you