[Verse 1]
Birth certificate blank, no man to sign the line,
Mama chasing highs, left us on the grind.
Crumbs on the counter, dreams scattered on the floor,
Family tree splintered, roots don’t grow no more.
[Chorus]
Bruised by the silence, scarred by the screams,
Raised in the shadows of abandoned dreams.
Blood runs thicker, but it cuts like a blade,
Family ties tangled in the choices she made.
[Verse 2]
Pop ghosted before I even saw the light,
Mama numbed the pain with poison every night.
Me and my siblings, we played survival games,
In a house of broken glass, we dodged the flames.
[Bridge]
Needles in the kitchen, echoes in the hall,
Lullabies replaced by the sound of a fall.
Looking in the mirror, I see a man unmade,
By the absence of a father, and a mother betrayed.
[Chorus]
Bruised by the silence, scarred by the screams,
Raised in the shadows of abandoned dreams.
Blood runs thicker, but it cuts like a blade,
Family ties tangled in the choices she made.
[Verse 3]
Now I’m grown, but the wounds still sting,
Carrying the weight of every broken thing.
A mother’s love traded for a chemical thrill,
A father’s absence leaving holes I can’t fill.