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If You Want To Love Someone
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Aug 23, 2026 updated
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Jason Gray's song "If You Want To Love Someone" is a reflective piece about the nature of true love, which involves entering into another person's pain and brokenness. The lyrics suggest that love means finding the cracks in someone's soul and pouring your heart into them, even when they hide their wounds. The song culminates in a realization of God's love, who saw the depth of the singer's wounds and was not afraid to meet him there. It's a gentle, contemplative song that encourages listeners to love others sacrificially, mirroring the love God has shown us.
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If you want to love someone
Search their soul for where it's broken
Find the cracks and pour your heart in
If you want to love someone
In every heart there is a hollow
Locked against the pain it's known
If there's a key, the key is sorrow
Only a trusted hand can hold
If you want to love someone
Search their soul for where it's broken
Find the cracks and pour your heart in
If you want to love someone
The heart will hide where it's been broken
But the fault lines still remain
Like a map to lead you home when
You can enter through their pain
If you want to love someone
Search their soul for where it's broken
Find the cracks and pour your heart in
If you want to love someone
Somehow You had a way of seeing
Just how deep my wound could go
Oh but You were never scared
To run and meet me there
And that's how I know
If you want to love someone
Search their soul for where it's broken
Find the cracks and pour your heart in
That's what You did�?�
If you want to love someone