[Intro] [Haunting piano melody. Deep, vibrating bass note. Sound of wind blowing.] (Spoken, whisper) They say blood is thicker than water. But my blood... is complicated. I look to the left, I look to the right. And I'm the only one standing. [Verse 1] My sister doesn't look like me, she's white like my brother. Carrying the heavy mind of our troubled mother. They live their lives inside the group home walls. Waiting for the meds, waiting for the calls. Different skin, but the same DNA. Watching their minds slowly drift away. I visit the broken, I visit the lost. Counting up the generational cost. [Chorus] [Vocals swell. Powerful and painful.] Lord, tell me... why was I spared? When the deck was shuffled, and the cards were shared? My brother, my sisters, they’re lost in the haze. While I’m out here navigating the maze. I’m the ONLY ONE walking a straight line. I’m the ONLY ONE with a quiet mind. I’m the Outlier. I’m the Unscathed. [Hook] [Repetitive Chant - Deep and rhythmic] Why me? (Unscathed!) Why me? (Unscathed!) I made it out the fire, didn't get burned. (Unscathed!) I broke the cycle, the tables turned. (Unscathed!) [Verse 2] Then there’s my Irish twin, born in the same year. She looks like me, yeah, the resemblance is clear. But I look in her eyes and there’s nobody home. Trapped in a prison of flesh and bone. We shared the same womb, we shared the same start. But a sickness came and tore us apart. She got the shadow, and I got the light. I cry for her in the middle of the night. [Chorus] Lord, tell me... why was I spared? When the deck was shuffled, and the cards were shared? My brother, my sisters, they’re lost in the haze. While I’m out here navigating the maze. I’m the ONLY ONE walking a straight line. I’m the ONLY ONE with a quiet mind. I’m the Outlier. I’m the Unscathed. [Hook] Why me? (Unscathed!) Why me? (Unscathed!) I made it out the fire, didn't get burned. (Unscathed!) I broke the cycle, the tables turned. (Unscathed!) [Verse 3] [Music pulls back. Intimate and raw.] I stand in the surgery room, saving a life. Raising three Kings, being a mother, a wife. (future wife) I’m finishing degrees, I’m climbing the hill. While they are just struggling to stand still. It’s a heavy crown, being the one who survived. The only branch on the tree that truly thrived. I carry them with me, in everything I do. Living the life that they never knew. [Bridge] [Cinematic Build. Strings and Drums.] I am the exception! I am the proof! I am the evidence of the truth! God put a shield around my head! He woke me up when I should have been dead! Unscathed! Unbroken! Unbound! [Final Chorus] I’m the ONLY ONE walking a straight line. I’m the ONLY ONE with a quiet mind. I’m the Outlier. I’m the Unscathed. [Outro] [Music fades to a single heartbeat sound.] Irish twin. White sister. Brother. And me. (Spoken) The only one. (Song ends)

Unscathed (The Outlier)