Forgiven

Built around a communion table image, the song opens by addressing Christ as bread broken in mercy and wine poured out, the means by which the word of life is given and sins are put to death. That eucharistic frame widens into a plain, repeated declaration: we are forgiven, our sins forgotten, the debt paid in full. The second stanza turns from the altar to the brokenhearted, asking God to look on hearts shattered by sorrow and on tears shed by sinners, and to speak the word of life so that grace feeds the soul. The language is spare and liturgical, closer to a hymn than a pop chorus, with the refrain carrying the weight of assurance rather than building to a climax. Forgiveness here is not a feeling but a finished transaction, and the mercy shown at the table is the same mercy asked for by those who come to it wounded. The song holds together confession and comfort without resolving into sentimentality, ending where it began: with hungry people fed by grace.