Make the Doorway Wide

[Verse 1]
You drew a line across the lunchroom floor
With a borrowed rule and a guarded door
But the names you feared were ordinary names
And the hands you blamed were holding the same

[Pre-Chorus]
No one here was harmed by a different face
No one lost their home to a stranger’s grace
If your comfort needs a smaller world
Who taught you that a heart can be controlled?

[Chorus]
We won’t make a cage from somebody’s skin
We won’t call it peace when the harm begins
Raise your voice, let the old lie crack
If they build a wall, we answer back
Not with hate, not with a borrowed crown
With every quiet soul refusing to bow down

[Verse 2]
You keep a ledger of the lives you’ve judged
Count every difference, call it too much
But the bus still comes and the children laugh
And the street grows wide when we share the path

[Pre-Chorus]
No one here was harmed by a different name
No one became less when the neighbors came
If your pride requires another’s shame
We will leave that lesson in the dust again

[Chorus]
We won’t make a cage from somebody’s skin
We won’t call it peace when the harm begins
Raise your voice, let the old lie crack
If they build a wall, we answer back
Not with hate, not with a borrowed crown
With every quiet soul refusing to bow down

[Bridge]
I know the feeling of being told to wait
Of making yourself small to decorate their gate
But tolerance is not a favor from above
It is the floor beneath a livable love
So take your place, and make the doorway wide
Stand beside the ones they pushed outside

[Final Chorus]
We won’t make a cage from somebody’s skin
We won’t call it peace when the harm begins
Raise your voice, let the old lie crack
If they build a wall, we answer back
Not with hate, not with a borrowed crown
With every quiet soul refusing to bow down

[Outro]
No one is asking you to lose your life
Only stop mistaking difference for a knife
Open the door, let the whole world in
That is where our better days begin