[Verse 1] They taught me heaven had a language and my mouth pronounced it wrong, that a question was a doorway where the devil waited long. So I learned to call doubt danger, learned obedience by heart, till I couldn’t tell the difference between conviction and alarm. [Pre-Chorus] Every instinct needed checking, every feeling needed proof. Funny how the voice of heaven always sounded just like you. [Chorus] You made a stranger of my knowing, made me frightened of my skin, taught me God was always watching for the places I gave in. But if truth can bear the daylight, it should never fear my eyes. Maybe faith was never asking me to practice being blind. [Verse 2] I confessed to being human like existence was a crime, laid my ordinary hunger on an altar every night. You kept moving every boundary then called shame the narrow road, till I carried your commandments like a hand around my throat. [Pre-Chorus] I was told that peace meant silence, that surrender made me clean. Now I know a quiet person isn’t proof they’re being freed. [Chorus] You made a stranger of my knowing, made me frightened of my skin, taught me God was always watching for the places I gave in. But if truth can bear the daylight, it should never fear my eyes. Maybe faith was never asking me to practice being blind. [Bridge] I don’t need another shepherd who gets nervous when I think. I don’t need a sacred answer that requires me not to blink. If your heaven needs me smaller to convince me it is wide, you can keep your gates of glory— I have finally found my sight. [Final Chorus] I am learning my own knowing, learning safety in my skin, letting questions be the windows instead of places darkness gets in. And if truth can bear the daylight, I will meet it with my eyes. Whatever holy means from here on, it will never make me blind.
