Always Loved Me

Iron Bell Music builds "Always Loved Me" entirely around corrected assumptions — "You're not who I thought You'd be, not hard to please but full of patience... not cold or stern but full of kindness" — naming a wrong picture of God before replacing it, rather than starting from an already-accurate one.

"Not keeping score but full of mercy" and "not disappointed God, no You are proud of me" continue the same pattern into the second verse, each line pairing a feared assumption with its actual opposite. "You're not all the lies I've bought" names the source of the wrong picture as something believed, not just misunderstood.

The bridge shifts from correcting belief to describing perception — "I look back and see You moving towards me, I look back and see You fighting for me" — reframing the whole song's argument as something noticed in hindsight rather than argued in the abstract. The repeated chorus, "You have always, always, always loved me," answers every corrected assumption with the same single, expanding claim.