Blueprint

[Am7] I never had a hand to guide me,

[Cmaj7] Never heard “I’m proud of you, son.”

[Em9] You were just a name in stories

[G6] Told by people who barely stuck around.

[Am7] Men came and went like weather,

[Cmaj7] Some showed me how to stand my ground…

[Em9] Every piece they handed me

[G6] Built the man you never found. (yeah)

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[Fmaj7] I don’t owe you any credit,

[Em] You were gone before the pain…

[Cmaj7] Every scar I sealed myself

[Dadd9] Became the proof I made my name.

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[Am] I don’t need a father,

[Fmaj7] Never needed you to shape my hands…

[Cmaj7] Everything you couldn’t be,

[G] I built it—

[Dadd9] Became a better man.

[Am] I grew past the empty space

[Fmaj7] Where you stood and ran away…

[Cmaj7] All the life you tossed aside,

[G] I lived it—

[Dadd9] And I lived it my own way. (mmm)

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[Am7] You could’ve shown me how to love,

[Cmaj7] Could’ve taught me how to stay…

[Em9] But silence raised me better

[G6] Than the man you tried to play.

[Am7] So I carried what you dropped,

[Cmaj7] Held the weight until it bled…

[Em9] Turned that burden into muscle

[G6] You never earned inside your head.

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[Fmaj7] I don’t need a blueprint,

[Em] I don’t need a perfect plan…

[Cmaj7] Every failure you abandoned

[Dadd9] Made me stronger than you can.

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[Am] I don’t need a father,

[Fmaj7] Never needed what you never gave…

[Cmaj7] Everything you ran from,

[G] I faced it—

[Dadd9] And I walked out unafraid.

[Am] I grew into the kind of man

[Fmaj7] You only dreamed you’d understand…

[Cmaj7] I built a world you couldn’t touch,

[G] Lived the life

[Dadd9] You threw away. (yeah)

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[Fmaj7] Maybe someday you’ll wonder

[Em] What a real man looks like now…

[Cmaj7] But you won’t find him in the mirror,

[Dadd9] ’Cause I’m the one who worked it out.

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[Am] I don’t need a father,

[Fmaj7] Never needed you to raise my name…

[Cmaj7] Everything you left behind,

[G] I turned it

[Dadd9] Into something worth the pain.

[Am] And I

[Fmaj7] Became the man I needed—

[Cmaj7] Not the man who walked away.

[G] I learned to stand

[Dadd9] Without you—

[Am] Every day. (mmm)