I've lost count of the times you've stopped me in my tracks

I meagerly admit "I didn't know grace worked like that"

My brain exists in a world where mercy and logic are at odds

But then you go and remind me I can't run out of forgiveness I don't need to prove them wrong

Everyone wins is a real thing

And when I feel I've betrayed love it won't welcome me again

For the millionth time you'll take my hair

Comb away the day's despair

Promise me these years alone

Do not mean I'm without hope

I don't know if I believe it

But I believe you

You say there's something to be learned here

You find a purpose for everything

There is this bedrock of beauty to you

The true depth to which you care about everything

But sometimes it kills you I've wanted so badly to turn you cold

Cause I know you would take on everyone's pain so they could just grow old

And I wonder if you know what you are

To everyone you know

You shrug it off

This is just what people do

There is no one else who does what you do

You're the magnificent answer to “Does God even care?"

There is no one else who does what you do

And now I know life ain't bad cause life gave me you

And all you are

Oh to share in your love

Is like holding a mirror to the sun

Can I reflect it?

Spread it around

To every corner

Give it to everyone I know

This year has placed a bounty on your joy

But wait ’til it meets us

And with your snot soaking into my shirt

I can feel all the hurt

I feel all the ways

I feel every way

Why would you ever understand

A person who acts like that?

Some people love their pain

And don’t want to change

At all

But I wish that I fully could

Fight off terrors on your behalf

So you didn’t have to feel all hurt

So your spirit could just relax

I just want you to feel the ease

That you bring to all of our lives

I know your heart will never quit

But I wish it got in less fights

Cause it’s not that you’re not so strong

It’s that you’re brave enough to care

The myth that selfishness is strength

Has never met your glare

The patientness to talk it out

To help align my brain and heart

To call me up when you are lost

To trust I love you as you are

It’s December but it’s Texas so we’re fine

And we make it to the house show just in time

And for one more perfect evening I will see

Your light transfigure the party

I think everyone who meets you feels your glow

Feels a little more at ease after your show

You know you can always call whenever, right?

I’m always down to cry at night

I know you’ve been abandoned by

The people you’ve loved before

So I make this promise to you

On everything I can swear

I’ll never yield my adoration,

My respect, my care for you

And anything you ask of me

I am with you until the end