Blue is the Bird that flies free now.

I was just a kid with scraped-up knees,

Dreams too big for the world to see,

A lonely swing in the evening light,

Waiting on a star to ignite.

You taught me pain could make you strong,

That being odd didn’t mean being wrong,

I watched you fall, I watched you rise,

With tears and hope in your stubborn eyes.

Every promise carved in scars,

Every fight beneath the stars,

I didn’t know I was growing too,

While I was growing up with you.

Oh, it hurts in a way that feels like home,

When the credits roll and I’m left alone,

Bittersweet like a fading flame,

I still whisper your name.

If this is goodbye, then let me say—

Thank you for showing me the way,

I’m not the same, I never knew,

How much of me was shaped by you.

Friends became my chosen blood,

Rivals taught me how to love,

Every loss, every war we fought,

Left a mark I never forgot.

From reckless laughs to quiet grief,

From broken faith to earned belief,

I followed you through darkened skies,

Through goodbyes I wasn’t ready to survive.

You taught me pain can coexist,

With hope held tight in a clenched fist,

And even when the world feels cruel,

Kindness can still be a rule.

Oh, it hurts in a way that feels like truth,

Missing a world that raised my youth,

Bittersweet like a final scene,

Where nothing’s quite how it used to be.

If time moves on, then so will I,

But part of me will always cry,

Because the kid I used to be,

Still runs through leaves, still believes.

I don’t rewatch just for the fights,

Or legends born in firelight,

I rewatch to remember who I was,

Before the weight, before the dust.

Before goodbyes meant something more,

Before life closed every door,

You remind me—when things fall apart,

There’s still a ninja in my heart.

Yeah, it hurts—but I wouldn’t trade,

A single tear that this journey made,

Bittersweet is the price we pay,

For loving something that couldn’t stay.

So here’s to dreams that never die,

Even when we say goodbye,

I’ll carry you, come what may,

My childhood—sealed away.

As the screen fades out to black,

I smile through tears I don’t take back,

Because somewhere, beneath the pain,

That fire still remains.