Choose Lit
Lyrics
Hey yeah yeah yeah Oh no no Only got cut offs, got two pair Got no job, but I'm maxed out on despair Still so high, on what else can I rely? No integrity, nobody cares for me So I crack one bottle and pack one hit They say choose light, but we all choose Crack one bottle and pack one hit They say choose light, but we all choose lit Choose lit, yeah we all choose lit Choose lit, why we all choose it? Choose lit, yeah we all choose lit You say it ain't right, but we all choose it I look in my closet, I look in my fridge How do I choose light when the bulbs in there ain't lit? I look for mama, she ain't around Family's broken in this part of town So I crack one bottle and pack one hit They say choose light but we all choose Crack one bottle and pack one hit They say choose light, but we all choose lit Choose lit, yeah we all choose lit Choose lit, why we all choose it? Choose lit, yeah we all choose lit You say it ain't right, but we all choose it All choose it, why do we all choose it? I wanna tune it, yeah yeah So I, so I go So I, so I go and Oh no, here I, here I go and Crack one bottle and pack one hit Say choose light, but we all choose Crack one bottle and pack one hit Yeah yeah yeah Choose lit, yeah we all choose lit Choose lit, yeah we all choose Singing, choose lit, yeah we all choose lit Say it ain't right, but we all choose it Oh no more, that's it Oh for sure Next time, yeah, light, I'll choose it
About This Song
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Snapshot of a person's regular substance use/abuse summed up in a simple question: if we know it is wrong, why don't we stop?
"Choose Lit" holds up the pull toward numbing where no light seems within reach. You sit inside the scarcity, the empty rooms and the broken household, and feel why the high keeps winning. It does not sell the escape; it shows the trap from the inside with the ache visible, so you see the gravity, not the glamour.
Then the turn lands and you feel the wish to choose light. You catch the right path named beside the wrong one. What you are left with is the gesture, not the doing: the resolve is for next time, so you hold the want without reaching the exit, and stop there.
At scale, "Choose Lit" works as a mirror held up to a community that keeps reaching for the high because little light seems available. They hear their own scarcity, the broken homes and the absent work, and recognize the collective pull rather than feeling recruited toward it. It names the cost plainly, so the reflection stays honest about the trap and never makes the escape look like something to want.
The symptom it leaves is recognition without remedy. They see the pull clearly and hear the wish to choose light, but the resolve is for next time, so the way out stays named and not yet walked. They carry the clear sight of the trap and the want of something better, and sit at the gesture toward it.
What is the song “Choose Lit” by Chad Lewine about?
Substance and alcohol use and abuse are more than modern science, academia and medicine want us to believe. Addiction is real, but no one is an addict for life. The system just slaps you with a label for life. That doesn't heal. I hope this song can at least spark a conversation that can.
— Chad Lewine
