Track · Apr 9, 2026 · English

Cold Before I Knew Love

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Duration

4:12

Language

English

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I’m sorry that my heart turned cold

Boy

I learned to fight

Not to hold

Every grown man around me

Only taught me how to fold

Cards on the table

Dreams on the floor

Never heard “I’m proud of you”

Just “go get more”

[Chorus]

I never had guidance growing up

Only sacrifice

No love

Now I’m staring at this little one

Wonder who I’m running from

I’m sorry to my son

For not knowing how to stand

I was raised by broken people

Who never showed me how to be a man

[Verse 2]

I’m sorry for the nights I left

Chasing ghosts

Chasing debt

For the bottle in the cabinet

And the rage I still regret

I was taught that crying’s weakness

So I buried all my hurt

But the pain seeps through the floorboards

Till it soaks your clean white shirt

[Chorus]

I never had guidance growing up

Only sacrifice

No love

Now I’m staring at this little one

Wonder who I’m running from

I’m sorry to my son

For not knowing how to stand

I was raised by broken people

Who never showed me how to be a man

[Bridge]

But I’m here now

Shaking

Trying

Learning how to stop the lying

Looking in your eyes like a mirror

Seeing every wound a little clearer

If my father could not teach me

Boy

I’ll learn it holding you

I’ll be the man I never had

If it’s the last hard thing I do (oh yeah)

[Chorus]

I never had guidance growing up

Only sacrifice

No love

But your tiny hand in my rough hand

Got me reaching up above

I’m sorry to my son

For all the places that I ran

But I’m standing in this doorway

Teaching us both how to be a man

Style

slow-burning blues-soul balladmale vocals. dirty tube amp guitar and upright bass set a rawlate-night groovebrushed drums just behind the beat. verses stay intimate with close-mic vocal and sparse organ swells; chorus widens with stacked gospel harmonies and a crying lead guitar answering the melody. final chorus lifts in intensitythen settles into a tenderfaded-cassette outro.soulbluesguidance

Prompt

I’m sorry my heart turn cold, I never had guidance growing up only sacrifice no love I’m sorry to my son for not being a man but never was taught, blues, soul

Credits

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FAHarrison

GeneratedApr 9, 2026

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