Leave a Chair

[Verse 1]
You drew a line across the table
I learned the shape of your name
Different prayers, different stories
Still our hands can share the same flame

I have carried words like weapons
Watched them bruise a room
But a door can stay unbroken
When we choose to make it move

[Pre-Chorus]
Put down the stone, loosen your grip
Leave a little room for another voice
We are more than the side we were given
We are more when we choose

[Chorus]
Let love be louder than the hatred
Let mercy cross the divide
You and I can make a shelter
With no one left outside

Let every heart keep its color
Let every truth have a place
We don't have to become each other
To meet face to face

[Verse 2]
At the market near the station
An old woman shared her bread
A child laughed beside a stranger
And the fear inside me fled

No anthem needs a single language
No home needs one kind of door
When we listen past the anger
We find what we were fighting for

[Pre-Chorus]
Put down the stone, loosen your grip
Leave a little room for another voice
We are more than the side we were given
We are more when we choose

[Chorus]
Let love be louder than the hatred
Let mercy cross the divide
You and I can make a shelter
With no one left outside

Let every heart keep its color
Let every truth have a place
We don't have to become each other
To meet face to face

[Bridge]
If your grief is at my doorstep
I will not turn away
If my fear becomes a fire
Help me find a gentler way

Not surrender, not forgetting
Not pretending wrong is right
Just the courage to stay human
When the room is split in two tonight

[Final Chorus]
Let love be louder than the hatred
Let mercy cross the divide
You and I can make a shelter
With no one left outside

Let every heart keep its color
Let every truth have a place
We don't have to become each other
To meet face to face

[Outro]
Leave a light for every neighbor
Leave a chair beside your own
A world is built by open hands
And no one builds it alone