[Verse 1] You left the kettle singing While the morning gathered steam I saw the tired in your shoulders And the part you tried to keep unseen I had a sharper answer Folded underneath my tongue But mercy made a little room For all the damage we had done [Pre-Chorus] A hand can close a door Or turn the handle slow A heart can keep the score Or let the old hurt go [Chorus] Love is the work we choose When nobody can see A thousand small refusals To become what wounded me Hold me when I lose my way I’ll hold you when you’re wrong Forgiveness is not forgetting It’s making room to carry on [Verse 2] Your brother called from Denver With a silence in his voice He said the world had taught him To mistake a wall for choice So we stayed beside the window Let the afternoon grow dim No speech could mend the whole thing But we did not abandon him [Pre-Chorus] A name can be a chain Or something we release A truth can cut like rain Or open into peace [Chorus] Love is the work we choose When nobody can see A thousand small refusals To become what wounded me Hold me when I lose my way I’ll hold you when you’re wrong Forgiveness is not forgetting It’s making room to carry on [Bridge] If I can hear your fear Without defending mine If you can meet my anger And leave the knife behind Then every broken promise Need not become a rule We can build a better country From the ways we make things new [Final Chorus] Love is the work we choose In every room and street A thousand hands together Can make the future breathe Hold me when I lose my way I’ll hold you when you’re wrong Forgiveness is not forgetting It’s making room to carry on [Outro] Make room, make room For the stranger and the scar Make room, make room That is how we change where we are
