You Are As You Are

[Verse 1] They tried to name you before you knew it Put their weight in the words you’d wear Turned your thoughts into something foolish Like your voice wasn’t meant to be there Said “Stay in line Don’t outgrow it” Fit your heart in a narrower frame But every time that you almost showed it Something in you refused the name [Chorus] You were made the way you are Breathing Thinking Reaching far You don’t need their fear to make you small You’re not broken You’re not wrong You’re a pulse You’re moving on And if there’s something greater It can take you as you are As you are [Verse 2] You don’t owe them silence or shrinking For the fire that lives in your mind If their truth is afraid of your thinking That’s a weakness, not something divine You can step from the walls that they built you Leave the dust where it clings to the air There’s a sky that was never against you And it’s wider than anything there [Chorus] You were made the way you are Breathing Thinking Reaching far You don’t need their fear to make you small You’re not broken You’re not wrong You’re a pulse You’re moving on And if there’s something greater It can take you as you are As you are [Bridge] If love asks you crawling It’s not love you found Anything that would break you Doesn’t get to be crowned So stand in your body Let your own light land If grace ever meets you It will meet you as you stand [Final Chorus] You were made the way you are Breathing Thinking Reaching far You don’t need their chains to make you whole You’re not broken You’re not wrong You’re alive You belong And if there’s a heaven It won’t ask you to fold As you are