Make Room at the Table

[Verse 1]
You left your coat beside the stairs
I saw the rain dried on the sleeve
You said the words too sharp to take back
I heard the hurt beneath them breathe

[Pre-Chorus]
We each arrive with different maps
And old alarms we can't explain
A pause can make a little room
For someone else's kind of pain

[Chorus]
Make room at the table
Make room for the truth
We don't have to be the same
To keep a place for you
When anger has a name
And mercy has a face
We mend the ties between us
One honest act of grace

[Verse 2]
The neighbor's porch light stayed on late
Though we had barely learned hello
A bowl of soup, a borrowed wrench
Can say what speeches never show

[Pre-Chorus]
Tolerance is not pretending
That every wound is small
It's holding firm to what is fair
And still not closing every door

[Chorus]
Make room at the table
Make room for the truth
We don't have to be the same
To keep a place for you
When anger has a name
And mercy has a face
We mend the ties between us
One honest act of grace

[Bridge]
Forgiveness isn't saying
That the harm was never real
It's choosing not to pass it on
While keeping what we need to heal
And when we listen past the blame
The silence starts to break
A common ground is built by hands
That learn what they can make

[Final Chorus]
Make room at the table
Make room for the truth
We don't have to be the same
To keep a place for you
When anger has a name
And mercy has a face
We mend the ties between us
One honest act of grace

[Outro]
A place for you
A place for me
A wider circle
We can keep