Audiobook

(Intro – soft, reflective)
Yeah…
If you hear this one day…
Just know I tried…
(Verse 1)
I see you sleeping on the couch with the TV glow,
Volume low but the silence louder than you know,
Little footsteps in a hallway full of broken words,
Tryna make sense of a world that you don’t deserve.
I remember nights I swore I’d never let you see,
All the weight that’s been sitting here inside of me,
But it leaks through the cracks when the pressure builds,
And I hate that you’re catching what I never healed.
You ask me why I look tired all the time,
Why I stare at the wall like I’m lost in my mind,
Truth is I’m fighting battles I don’t show in the day,
Tryna keep the dark clouds always out of your way.
And I know I ain’t perfect, I’ve been losing my grip,
Tryna build us a life with these shaking hands clenched,
If I fall, just know I was reaching for more,
Every bruise, every scar was me at war.
(Hook)
If it all falls down, don’t you be afraid,
I’ll be your shelter when the sky turns gray,
Even if I break, I won’t let you see,
All the weight of this world sitting on me.
And if they say I couldn’t be what I should,
Just know I gave you everything I could,
Through the pain, through it all I stayed—
So you’d never feel the mess I made.
(Verse 2)
I hear you laughing in the next room, pure and loud,
And it cuts through the storm like it parts the clouds,
That’s the only thing that ever keeps me sane,
Like a little bit of sun in a world of rain.
But I see the questions written in your eyes,
Like you’re piecing together all the silent goodbyes,
Every slammed door, every tear I hid,
You were learning the truth while I protected a myth.
I tried to paint it like we had it all okay,
Like the cracks in the walls would just fade away,
But life don’t work like the lies we tell,
Sometimes heaven gets lost in a living hell.
If I could rewind, I’d rewrite the past,
Take away every moment that went too fast,
Every time I chose wrong, every time I broke down,
Every time you needed me and I wasn’t around.
But I’m here right now, and I’m holding on tight,
Tryna be your calm in the middle of the fight,
Even if the world keeps pulling me apart,
You’ll always have the strongest piece of my heart.
(Hook)
If it all falls down, don’t you be afraid,
I’ll be your shelter when the sky turns gray,
Even if I break, I won’t let you see,
All the weight of this world sitting on me.
And if they say I couldn’t be what I should,
Just know I gave you everything I could,
Through the pain, through it all I stayed—
So you’d never feel the mess I made.
(Verse 3 – more intense)
Yeah… maybe one day you’ll hear this track,
Tryna understand where your old man’s at,
Why his voice sounds heavy, why his words feel cracked,
Why he loved so hard but still fell back.
I was young, I was lost, I was chasing ghosts,
Tryna find myself while I needed you most,
And I hate that you paid for the wars in my head,
All the nights you felt alone in your bed.

Hip hop