Verse 1:
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Verse 1
Mama punched the clock at GM lines
30 years of steel and sacrifice
Daddy kept Yokem running right
Toyota blue, day into night
They showed me how to stand, how to stay
How to turn hard work into grace
Then a test came back, unexpected news
Changed the story that I thought I knew
But it didn’t break me — it built me new
Cause my strength, my power, runs back to you
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Every shift, every calloused hand
Built the woman that I am
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This is legacy in my DNA
Not just the blood, but the names that paved
My heroes in their yesterday
Live in every choice I make today
What I found just made me see
The legacy in my DNA is free
Verse 2
Now my oldest walks where Daddy walks
Same shop floor, same honest talk
My brother’s teaching what he learned too
How to work it right, how to see it through
Grease on his hands, pride in his chest
He’s getting lessons they can’t learn in a test
Watching Granddad’s patience, Uncle’s drive
I see the men before him come alive
He don’t know yet, but he’s gaining gold
Something powerful that can’t be sold
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Cause what they’re giving runs deep as veins
It’s more than business, it’s blood and name
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This is legacy in my DNA
Not just the blood, but the names that paved
My heroes in their yesterday
Live in every choice I make today
And now I see it growing in my seed
The legacy in my DNA is real in me
Verse 3
My baby boy’s in Missouri, running senior routes
Education major, but he still schools DBs too
Wide receiver 86 — yeah, that’s 8 6 on his back
Infinite potential when the ancestors attack
They got him in man coverage, trying to jam his fate
But Granddaddy taught him press release — he separates from hate
Limited snaps, but he knows about snap decisions
He’s reading defenses like he reads their old visions
He can take it to the house or take notes in the house — teacher either way
Playbook thick with prayers from the men who used to pray
He’ll run a post to the NFL, or post up on the sideline as coach
Scout the field or scout young minds — either way he won’t choke
They call it hang time — but his patience is the clock
Waiting on his shot, cause his bloodline don’t stop
Mama worked the line, Daddy held the line
Now he’s first down the line — that’s the bloodline
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When they blitz his dreams, he hits the hot route
Ancestors in the huddle saying “Audible to the doubt”
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This is legacy in my DNA
From the factory floor to the hash-mark spray
We run the routes that the old heads laid
Till we break free on a winning play
What I build, what he’ll catch too
The legacy in my DNA runs through
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I don’t just pass down genes, I pass down keys
To the doors they walked through on bended knees
Mama’s shift work became my paradigm shift
Daddy’s drivetrain taught me how to drive this
LEGACY
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