[Intro] (laugh) Welcome. [Verse 1] I know what they have called you — Too much, too dark, too strange, too wrong. I have heard the ledger they keep on you, The scale they weigh your heart upon. Sit — Put the scale down. You will not need it here. [Pre-Chorus] They measure light in borrowed virtue, They rank the souls like cuts of meat — I have seen both sides of every coin, And I do not grade what I complete. [Chorus] I accept you as you are — No brighter, no better, not mended, not clean. Bring the whole coin — every scar, There is no scale where I have been. Every face you hide from daylight, Every name they made you wear — I accept you as you are. No verdict waits for you here. [Verse 2] They call it good, they call it evil — Two hands of one body, both the same. They crown the kind and cage the wild, Then wonder why the wild knows shame. I have worn both crowns, darling. Neither one weighed more. [Pre-Chorus 2] You knelt to their hierarchy, They moved the bar and called for more — The only throne I offer you Is standing face to face. [Chorus] I accept you as you are — No brighter, no better, not mended, not clean. Bring the whole coin, every scar, There is no scale where I have been. Every face you hide from daylight, Every name they made you wear — I accept you as you are. No verdict waits for you here. [Bridge] No confession needed. No redemption required. No forgiveness sold here — You owe nothing to be entire. They say the dark is what you suffer. I say the dark is where you breathe. I kiss the scar, I do not cure it — The scar is how you came to me. [Final Chorus] I accept you as you are — No brighter, no better, not mended, not clean. Bring the whole coin, every scar, There is no scale where I have been. Every face you hide from daylight, Every name they made you wear — I accept you as you are. No verdict waits for you here. [Outro] No scale. No verdict. No grace required. (åh) Welcome home. Accept you as you are... as you are... as you are...
