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Lyrics
[Verse 1]
When I was a child
My momma told me
"Boy
Don't you rush through your days"
"Hold on to your laughter and your questions"
"Let your bruises teach you the way"
Her hands in the dishwater
Steam on her glasses
Me on the floor with a toy
She said
"The world might break your little pieces
But it can't steal your joy"
[Chorus]
What they told me
Still talking in my head
All these voices
Living where the past ain't dead
Every chapter
Written in a different hand
What they told me
What they told me
Turned a boy to a broken
Better man
[Verse 2]
When I was a man
My woman told me
"Baby
You ain't made of stone"
"You carry your pain like a pocket knife
You never leave it at home"
Suit on the chair
Late nights at the table
Bills piled up in a stack
She said
"You keep walking like you're leaving
But you always circle back"
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] When I was an old man
I sat there quietly
Talking to the cracks in the wall
"I gave away time like loose change"
"I tried to hold what I should've let fall"
[violin solo]
I told myself
"Son
Forgive your younger shadow
He did the best that he could"
"Love a little louder in the silence
And remember what was good"
[Chorus]
Details
GeneratedJan 14, 2026
Duration3:39
LanguageEnglish
Style
pop, Modern blues-pop ballad with dusty acoustic guitar, warm bass, and a weeping violin answering each vocal phrase. Verses stay intimate and close-mic’d, brushes on snare barely stirring; chorus swells with stacked harmonies and a brighter drum groove. Violin takes short melodic fills between lines, then a more emotive mini-solo in the bridge, building to a final, soulful vocal climb. Male vocals with a weathered, storytelling tone., violin, blues
Credits
Prompt by
Unguided_Benevolence
Unguided_BenevolenceModelAria v5
Prompt
When I was a child my momma told me... When I was a man my wife told me... When I was an old man I told me..., blues, violin, pop
