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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