Title: Everybody Had a Different Version of You
[Verse 1]
I asked my mother who you were.
She stared at the table first.
Like the answer was still sitting there.
She said you could fill a room with laughter.
Then disappear for months.
Like both things belonged to the same man.
I asked an old friend from the neighborhood.
He smiled before he answered.
Said you were the kind of man
People wanted to follow.
[Pre-Chorus]
One story made you a hero.
One story made you a warning.
I kept collecting pieces.
None of them matched.
[Chorus]
Everybody had a different version of you.
Everybody swore theirs was true.
One man’s dreamer.
One man’s fool.
One man’s promise.
One man’s wound.
Everybody had a different version of you.
The more I listened.
The less I knew.
[Verse 2]
I found your records in a cardboard box.
I played them one by one.
Trying to hear the man
Everybody kept talking about.
Some remembered the music.
Some remembered the fights.
Some remembered your smile.
Some remembered the nights
You never came home.
[Bridge]
Maybe people don’t remember facts.
Maybe they remember feelings.
Maybe that’s why
Nobody agrees.
My mother remembers waiting.
Your friends remember laughing.
I remember searching.
And somehow
All of it belongs to you.
[Final Chorus]
Everybody had a different version of you.
Everybody swore theirs was true.
The musician.
The father.
The dreamer.
The ghost.
I stopped looking for one answer.
And started listening to them all.
[Outro]
The more people I asked.
The less certain I got.
The less certain I got.
The closer I got to you.
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