George Jones Songs - Choices Lyrics

George Jones - Choices

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Album: The Cold Hard Truth
Released: 1999

Choices Lyrics

[Chorus]
I've had Choices
Since the day that I was born
There were voices
That told me right from wrong
If I had listened
No I wouldn't be here today
Living and dying
With the choices I made

I was tempted
By an early age I found
I liked drinkin'
Oh, and I never turned it down
There were loved ones
But I turned them all away
Now I'm living and dying
With the choices I made

[Chorus]

I guess I'm payin'
For the things that I have done
If I could go back
Oh, Lord knows I'd run
But I'm still losin'
This game of life I play
Living and dying
With the choices I made

[Chorus]

Living and dying
With the choices I made

Writer/s: YATES, BILLY WAYNE / CURTIS, MICHAEL A.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, CONEXION MEDIA GROUP, INC.
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Choices

This song is basically the true life story of George Jones, who overcame drug and alcohol addiction.

The year this was released, Jones was supposed to perform it on the televised CMA Awards. The CMA's wanted George to perform about 30 seconds of the song directly before a commercial break, so George backed out of the performance because he refused to perform only part of the song. During the live awards show, fellow Country singer Alan Jackson rebelled against the CMA's and stopped his song "Pop A Top" midway and started into the full version of this.

Rumor was from backstage at the CMA's after Alan Jackson broke the format and performed "Choices" on the awards show he walked straight out the back door saying, "That might be it for my career." Of course, it was anything but. George Jones saw Jackson's performance on TV at his home, and applauded the effort. A couple of years later, Jackson used the CMA awards to perform, for the first time, his post 9/11 tribute "Where Were You."