[Verse 1] You asked me if I'd love you By the name you've chosen now. I met your eyes and answered, "Child," "More than any word knows how." You searched my soul with questions, Wondered what my eyes might say. As though love could lose its footing For a single word that's changed. [Pre-Chorus] But My Child, I've lived and loved enough to tell you What no label ever will... [Chorus] You never had to earn my love. You never had to fit. No borrowed word could ever hold The worth of you within. The truth will always come calling someday... So just keep an open mind The truth's not cruel, my little one... It's just another Kind. [Verse 2] I have worn my share of labels. Some I chose. Or others gave. Every one became too heavy For the soul they could not save. Some promised me belonging. Some promised I'd be free. Every one just squeezed me smaller Than the real me underneath. [Pre-Chorus] Names can start a conversation. But you know... They should never have the last word. [Chorus] You never had to earn my love. You never had to fit. No borrowed word could carry well The worth of you with it. The truth will always come calling someday... So just keep an open mind The truth's not cruel... It's just another Kind. [Bridge] If you need a coat for winter, Wear it while the cold winds blow. If you need a word for where you are, Then use it now, but grow. Don't try to build your forever heart Within a passing season. You're older than your labels. And deeper than your reasons. Long before the world had ever pushed its words on you, My love already knew your name.... I knew you just as you. [Instrumental] [Final Chorus] You never had to earn my love. You never had to fit. No borrowed word could ever hold The worth of you within it. The truth will always come calling someday... Not to shame you. Not to break you. Only to set gently in your hands The freedom that survives When every borrowed word grows quiet. So keep an open mind, my child-- The truth's not cruel... It's just another Kind. [Outro] Someday The names we've carried Will rest beside the road Like coats No longer needed. And when they're gone... I'll still know your laugh. I'll still know your voice. I'll still know your heart. Because I have never loved A label. I've only ever loved... You.
