Jesus-Loving Queer Kid

I find it hard to write this song Or begin to find the words Cause I have always loved God And I have always liked girls And those two things can't coexist Or at least that's what I was taught In a dress for Sunday best I found myself so lost And a decade on church stages Came at way too high a cost Cause if you knew who I loved You'd never let me walk through the doors Not anymore But what if I'm like Jesus And you're the Pharisees Who remember all the rules And forget love intervenes What if that's how the pews became The most dangerous place to be For a Jesus-loving queer kid like me I came home on Wednesday And I couldn't believe How foreign it seemed to be On Route 283 I guess it's true that I outgrew This place that I once called home The roads they look so different From the less traveled one I chose And you all have opinions on In the end where I will go I'm not asking you to join me But consider that you read the map wrong What if you're wrong? And what if I'm like Jesus And you're the Pharisees Who remember all the rules And forget love intervenes What if that's how the pews became The most dangerous place to be For a Jesus-loving queer kid like me So throw your stones And do it quick Do your worst I can handle it I have braced myself For way too long Cause I believe in the Man That stoops down to Write in the sand To see oppressed Empowered to be strong And says that in the end Love can't go wrong And what if I'm like Jesus And you're the Pharisees Who remember all the rules And forget love intervenes What if that's how the pews became The most dangerous place to be For a Jesus-loving queer kid Like me