What It's Like To Be Known

When your heart breaks wide open

And you’re scared of your own emotion

But for a moment you don’t feel so alone

This is what it’s like to be known

When you’re on your knees in the kitchen

Just asking Jesus to listen

‘Cause you can’t hold the weight on your own

This is what it’s like to be known

When your mama knows the state you’re in

Even when you’re good at faking it

Like she sees all the fragments of your soul

This is what it’s like to be known

When a breath of holy friendship

Can take your heart and mend it

Remind you of who you are and where you’re going

Oh, this is what it’s like to be known

Oh and standing by the ocean

Makes you feel so unimportant

Just a temporary piece of the whole

Oh, this is what it’s like to be known

When the gravity of grace

Wraps you up in her embrace

And you don’t deserve the mercy you’re shown

Oh, this is what it’s like to be known

I have loved you when you’re not easy to love

Does it scare you that I'm never giving up?

Don’t you believe me when I tell you this home?

And this is what it’s like to be known