Loving All Along

I came looking for a pure thing With so much love, it should be plain You built a world to live inside of While I shiver in the rain Ten thousand lines to stage it all Punishments, rewards, doors, and rooms For every friend and every foe To serve that sweet vision's end My heart is a weight that falls To the center of what I adore The ache grows a little lighter As my chest gives back the stone And underneath it All this just to say one thing What I love not only shapes me It decides what I become I didn't know I'd been Loving all along I closed the book you're reading from I've got my own song to write I don't need another guide Timing the breath I sing tonight Across centuries and ages A thousand voices carry him I'll take my hard-won, living truth And let that be enough My heart takes a breath that rises Warm against the cold I'd known My nerves settle into lightness Arriving where I belong And underneath it All this just to say one thing What I love not only shapes me It decides what I become I didn't know I'd been Loving all along Pressed against your stubborn passion I struggled all the way Until I blessed the one who built it And watched the pride melt away My blood finally found some peace There was love inside the trying And here I found the grace She gives me