Velvet Voice Blues — Tonight I Choose Me

I was late for my own living.
Always somewhere
I should be.
Always
Fixing, always giving, saving everybody
But me.
Then
I heard the drums on friday
Calling from across the street tonight
I choose me
Me, me
WILD AND ALIVE and finally free
Turn that rhythm up for me tonight
I choose me
Me, me
I was wearing workday trousers, had
My hair tied in a knot
I said maybe just one minute
Knowing very well
I'd not.
Then a woman
With gold earrings
Pulled me laughing to the crowd tonight
I choose me
Me, me
WILD AND ALIVE and finally free
Turn that rhythm up for me tonight
I choose me, me, me
There were feathers on the dancers.
There were drums beneath my feet.
There were strangers singing
Loudly like the whole world
Found one beat.
And for once
I stopped remembering
Every place
I had to be tonight
I choose me, me, me
WILD AND ALIVE and finally free
Turn that rhythm up for me tonight
I choose me
Me, me
Then a man with the laughing brown eyes
Asked me, "Lady, can you dance?
I said, "Not the way you're asking." He
Said, "Baby, take a chance." So
I put my
Bag down somewhere and
I gave the night my hands tonight
I choose me
Me, me
Wild and alive and finally free
Turn that rhythm up for me tonight
I choose me
Me, me
I forgot about the dishes.
I forgot
Tomorrow's calls
I forgot the little voices saying women
Shouldn't fall
I was sweating.
I was laughing
I was 10 ft tall
Tonight I choose
Me, ME, ME
WILD AND ALIVE AND FINALLY FREE
TURN THAT rhythm up for me tonight
I choose me
Me, me
Yeah, at 11:00 I was dancing.
At
12:00 I kicked away my shoes.
At 1:00 I
Kissed that laughing stranger just because
I wanted to.
At 2:00 I looked
Up at the moonlight and
I liked the woman in view tonight
I choose me, me, me
Wild and alive and finally free
Turn that rhythm up for me tonight
I choose me
Me, me
All my life
I called it selfish any time
I needed space.
All my life
I made
Excuses for the dreams
I didn't chase.
Now
I know a woman's freedom
Isn't something to erase tonight
I choose me
Me, me
Wild and alive and finally free
Turn that rhythm up for me tonight
I choose me
Me, me
When the sunrise touched the rooftops, I
Walked home without regret.
There was
Glitter on my shoulder.
There was music
In my step.
And the woman from
The evening
Wasn't finished living yet