Papa Zack at war no one knows it

I wake up tired but I still get up
Another long day, I don’t give up
Sun up to sun down, I carry the load
Walkin’ this life on a heavy road

Mama needs me, she’s losin’ time with her dementia
Daddy’s hurtin’, with his back, but I stay on the line
Call ‘em brain and muscle, that’s my truth
I show up daily, I don’t lose

Ain’t no break, ain’t no peace for me
Just tryin’ to breathe and believe

I’m fightin’ a war nobody sees
Just a hard-workin’ man on my knees
From sunrise burn to the dead of night
Tryna make it through, tryna do it right

Nobody knows what it costs in me
But I keep on goin’, I won’t leave
Even when I’m barely holdin’ on
I’m still standin’ strong

Three restaurants, I own I do it all
Answer every time they call
Cookin’, cleanin’, wearin’ thin
Still show up and do it again

Car  Rental with the shop’, fixin’ what breaks
No sleep, no stop, whatever it takes
Hundred hours every week I go
Still pushin’ through the lows

Kids don’t see what I go through
Different world, they never knew 
Their mommy’s boys
But I ain’t bitter, I just survive
Tryna keep my world alive

It ain’t money that keeps me here
It’s love that fights through every fear
I fall apart, then stand back tall
Even when I feel I’ve lost it all

I’m fightin’ a war nobody sees
Just a hard-workin’ man on my knees
From sunrise burn to the dead of night
Still tryna make it through this life

Nobody knows what it costs in me
But I keep on goin’, I won’t leave
Even when I’m barely holdin’ on
I’m still standin’ strong

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Country, male