What It's Like To Be Known

Natalie Madigan

Compositor: Delaney Dean / Natalie Piper Madigan

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