Jesus-Loving Queer Kid

I find it hard to write this song
Or begin to find the words
Cause I have always loved God
And I have always liked girls
And those two things can't coexist
Or at least that's what I was taught
In a dress for Sunday best
I found myself so lost
And a decade on church stages
Came at way too high a cost
Cause if you knew who I loved
You'd never let me walk through the doors
Not anymore

But what if I'm like Jesus
And you're the Pharisees
Who remember all the rules
And forget love intervenes
What if that's how the pews became
The most dangerous place to be
For a Jesus-loving queer kid like me

I came home on Wednesday
And I couldn't believe
How foreign it seemed to be
On Route 283
I guess it's true that I outgrew
This place that I once called home
The roads they look so different
From the less traveled one I chose
And you all have opinions on
In the end where I will go
I'm not asking you to join me
But consider that you read the map wrong
What if you're wrong?

And what if I'm like Jesus
And you're the Pharisees
Who remember all the rules
And forget love intervenes
What if that's how the pews became
The most dangerous place to be
For a Jesus-loving queer kid like me

So throw your stones
And do it quick
Do your worst
I can handle it
I have braced myself
For way too long
Cause I believe in the Man
That stoops down to
Write in the sand
To see oppressed
Empowered to be strong
And says that in the end
Love can't go wrong

And what if I'm like Jesus
And you're the Pharisees
Who remember all the rules
And forget love intervenes
What if that's how the pews became
The most dangerous place to be
For a Jesus-loving queer kid
Like me