Sung by Steven at the end of the eponymous season 5 episode, this song is a brief, sweet anthem to self-acceptance, self-love, and what it means to have both even when those closest to you reject you.

On the surface, it communicates Steven’s attitude towards the Diamonds—specifically White. It shows his willingness to build a relationship with his family, if they decide that they are willing to accept him on his own terms.

Before he sings this song, Steven says, “I had an idea. Well… a song idea, but also an idea-idea,” drawing attention to the fact that this song is more than just a reflection on the series, and is in fact a Big Idea. For countless (especially LGBTQIA+) children, siblings. parents, friends who find themselves ostracized by their loved ones for who they are, learning to find love and respect for themselves can be one of the hardest things to do. Throughout the series, we see Steven, Garnet, Pearl, Amethyst, and eventually Pink, Peridot, Lapis, and the Off-Colors learn these lessons for themselves, each exploring what it means to find their own meaning, even as they are rejected, hunted, and denigrated by their family and their society.

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Eventually, Steven finally manages to get the acceptance of the Diamonds, but as he reflects back on it, he realizes that he didn’t need their acceptance or their love. He had made a family for himself, he had learned how to love himself, even the parts of him that were his mother, and that the people who were suffering because of his ostracization were the ones who missed out on knowing him and his adoptive family.