That’s What Love is

Verse 1

A California girl with big dreams in her heart

Met a Wyoming boy, where it all would start

We were young, thought love would just come easy back then

Didn’t know the many times we’d have to choose us over and over again

I carried broken pieces I had learned to hide

Built walls around the places hurting deep inside

You could’ve walked away when loving me got hard

But somehow you kept reaching for my heart

Chorus

You stayed when staying wasn’t easy

You held on when I let go

You saw the parts of me I tried so hard

To never let you know

And every time I gave you reasons

To turn and walk away

You showed me love keeps choosing

Even on the hardest days

I thought I knew what love was

Now I know because of this—

When you know the worst and choose me still

That’s what love is

Verse 2

I’ve watched you be a father, putting all of us first

Carrying the weight and never saying when it hurts

I’ve watched you go without so we could have enough And never call sacrifice, you just call it love

There are scars upon our story we don’t have to hide

They’re proof that something broken doesn’t have to die

‘Cause forgiveness gave us room to start again

And what could’ve been our ending wasn’t the end

Chorus

You stayed when staying wasn’t easy

You held on when I let go

You saw the parts of me I tried so hard

To never let you know

And every time I gave you reasons

To turn and walk away

You showed me love keeps choosing

Even on the hardest days

I thought I knew what love was

Now I know because of this—

When you know the worst and choose me still

That’s what love is

Bridge

Somewhere in your patience

God was teaching me

Love is more than words you say

It’s who you choose to be

It’s mercy in the morning

It’s forgiveness when it hurts

It’s knowing every broken part

And loving through the worst

And somewhere in your faithfulness

I saw a greater love

The kind that kept on reaching

When I’d already given up

You could never be my Savior

But you helped me understand

A little more about His love

By the way you took my hand

Final Chorus

You stayed when staying wasn’t easy

You held on when I let go

You’ve known the woman that I was

And watched me learn and grow

You gave forgiveness when you had

Every reason to be done

And taught me love ain’t proven

When the loving part is fun

I thought I knew what love was

But now I finally get it

It’s seeing someone at their worst

And somehow seeing past it

It’s choosing them tomorrow

Like you chose them yesterday

It’s staying when it’s easier

To turn and walk away

After all the years you’ve chosen me

There’s one thing I know is true

If anybody asks me what love is

I’ll tell ’em, “It looks like you.”

Outro

And if our boys someday ask me

What kind of love gets through

I’ll tell them, “Watch your daddy—

He’ll show you what love can do.”

‘Cause I thought I knew what love was

But now I know the truth

If anybody asks me what love is

I’ll tell ’em, “It looks like you.”