You Were Always Enough

Some days ask everything you have just to make it through the day
And the small things they call easy take the strength of you away
And I see the way you gather it, and rise, and start again
With no one there to see the courage that it takes just to begin
But I never kept a count of all the things you couldn't do
I have only ever needed the plain fact of having you

You were always enough
Not for keeping up, not for getting through
You were always enough
Just for being here, just for being you
You were never once a burden, never once a weight to bear
You were loved before you did a thing, you were loved just being there
You were always enough

And I know you hide a heavy thought, the one you'll never share
That the world would run a little smoother if you weren't there
So hear me say the thing you can't, and hear me make it plain
I would take your hardest day and live it twice to ease your pain
You were never once too much for me, not one day, not one way
And I choose you, and I choose you still, through every ordinary day

You were always enough
Not for keeping up, not for getting through
You were always enough
Just for being here, just for being you
You were never once a burden, never once a weight to bear
You were loved before you did a thing, you were loved just being there
You were always enough
You were always enough

You were never a burden, you were never a debt
Never the sorry you carry that you haven't said yet
Every part of yourself that you're sure puts us behind
That's the part I would cross a hundred miles to find
So breathe a little softer, let it land
You were loved for just being, for the small and simple fact of where you stand

You were always enough
Not for keeping up, not for getting through
You were always enough
Just for being here, just for being you
You were never once a burden, never once a weight to bear
You were loved before you did a thing, you were loved just being there
You were always enough
You were always enough