[Intro - Plates Set Down] One chair is empty. Keep the room kind. [Verse 1 - Rotating Voices] You brought soup when work went missing. You brought tools when pipes gave way. I sat quiet through your anger. She came back another day. He said no and we believed him. They changed names and we relearned. No one passed a bloodline entrance. Every place was slowly earned. [Pre-Chorus - Lead] Not by saying family louder. By the way we meet the strain. [Chorus] Chosen family, leave the doorway in the frame. Every yes can be renewed here. Every no can keep its name. Hold the table, not the person. Make repair a road, not blame. Chosen family, home is welcome without chains. [Verse 2] There are nights the room feels golden, every story landing warm. There are months when one goes missing, finding shelter from a storm. We can offer them a signal. We cannot require return. Care can keep a place from closing without making absence wrong. [Pre-Chorus] History gives us more to answer. It does not grant permanent claim. [Chorus] Chosen family, leave the doorway in the frame. Every yes can be renewed here. Every no can keep its name. Hold the table, not the person. Make repair a road, not blame. Chosen family, home is welcome without chains. [Bridge - One Chair] If the group demands your silence, if the rent becomes a leash, if affection hides a ledger that can never be released, then the word has lost its shelter. Call the pressure what it is. A family should widen breathing, not decide who gets a voice. [Final Chorus - Distinct Voices] Chosen family, we will keep the doorway plain. You may leave without erasure. You may ask to try again. Bring your difference to the table. Let correction change our ways. Chosen family, home is how we hold your name. [Outro - One Place Setting Remains] No demand. No disappearance. Dinner stays warm awhile.
