Choose Your Battles

Album: Prism (2013)
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  • You are my hurt locker lover
    Keep me walking on a wire
    Don't know when you'll blow
    So I tip toe through your triggered mine
    You fight me but I'm on your side
    Defeated, now retreating

    Why you trying to make me your enemy
    All I really need is a little peace
    I just wanna be your lover
    Oh, this is not a competition
    So baby why the ammunition
    I don't wanna be the last one standing

    Choose your battles, babe
    Then you win the war
    Stop digging your own grave
    There's so much to live for

    Choose your battles, babe
    'Cause I'm not fighting anymore
    I am not fighting anymore

    I try to pick off your red flags
    But dancing up on broken glass
    Your mind games hit like glue names
    Your course just like the Kennedys
    But you somehow get me on my knees, defeated
    Not retreated

    Why you trying to make me your enemy
    All I really need is a little peace
    I just wanna be your lover
    Oh, this is not a competition
    So baby why the ammunition
    I don't wanna be the last one standing

    Choose your battles, babe
    Then you win the war
    Stop digging your own grave
    Within, so much to live for

    Choose your battles, babe
    'Cause I'm not fighting anymore, no
    I am not fighting anymore

    If you wanna go, then go
    If you wanna stay then stay
    'Cause I don't wanna fight no more, baby
    I am not fighting anymore
    If you wanna go, then go
    If you wanna stay then stay
    I don't wanna fight no more
    Anyway, I am not fighting anymore

    If you wanna go, then go
    If you wanna stay then stay
    'Cause I don't wanna fight no more, baby

    If you wanna go, then go (choose your battle babe)
    If you wanna stay then stay (then you win the war)
    'Cause I don't wanna fight no more, baby (stop digging your own grave)

    If you wanna go, then go (choose your battle babe)
    If you wanna stay then stay (then you win the war)
    'Cause I don't wanna fight no more, baby Writer/s: GREG WELLS, JONATHA BROOKE, KATY PERRY
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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