Shelter

Brian Doerksen keeps "Shelter" focused on collective need rather than one person's specific story — "we all need love and shelter, a place where we let go and rest, to live secure with one another, to be ourselves, not somebody else." The song speaks in "we" and "everybody" throughout, treating the need for safety as universal rather than exceptional.

"We can tell the truth about our trauma, to be believed so we can be restored" names honesty and belief as the actual mechanism of healing, not comfort alone. "We all need confirmation, to know that we are seen and heard, to live our lives out in freedom" keeps naming specific, concrete needs rather than a single vague wish for kindness.

"Everybody breathe love, everyone receive love, it's how we heal and make things right" closes the song by making love something to be actively exchanged rather than passively hoped for, ending on the same word the song opened with — shelter, offered to everyone rather than earned by anyone.