This one right here… this is healing, truth, and freedom all in one record.
We’re gonna keep it raw dirt road, but this time it’s not just pain… it’s release + self-love + God’s restoration.
I’m locking in your story, your dad (Marvin “Bay Bay” Tinsley), your mom (Deborah Tinsley), your past, and your breakthrough.
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🎵 SONG TITLE: “FINALLY LOVE MYSELF”
(Hip-Hop Country Gospel Blues | Dirt Road Redemption | 7 Vision)
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[Intro – soft, emotional, almost spoken]
Yeah…
This one different…
This ain’t just pain no more…
This healing…
Bay Bay… I hear you now…
7 Vision…
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[Verse 1 – childhood / father / wound]
My daddy told me, “Son don’t say you love me, show it”
“If you love your name, don’t drag it through the moment”
Courtrooms, chains… yeah I heard his pain
Every time I hurt myself, I know it hit his veins
He was there at practice, yeah he showed up right
Coach on the sidelines, made sure I was alright
But I seen another side I couldn’t understand
When he hurt my mama, I became a different man
I seen him cheat, yeah I knew the truth
Even met the woman… I was just a youth
Held it all inside, didn’t say a word
Didn’t wanna break my mama… but it broke me worse
That silence turned to pain I couldn’t explain
Started lookin’ for love in the wrong things
Wrong women, wrong nights, wrong highs
Tryna heal a wound I kept buried inside
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[Hook – soulful, country gospel feel]
I’m finally learnin’ how to love myself…
After all that pain, I had to hug myself…
God picked me up when I lost my way
Now I see my life in a different way
I’m finally free from what I felt…
I ain’t gotta hurt just to help myself
Everything I got came from above
Now I walk in truth… now I walk in love
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[Verse 2 – mother / prayer / redemption]
My mama Deborah… yeah she never broke
Stayed on her knees, kept her faith in hope
Prayed for my daddy every single night
God told her, “I’ma make him right”
Saved, sanctified, filled with the Ghost
God kept His word, yeah He did the most
Just not the way that she thought it’d be
But she forgave him… and she got set free
She forgave the woman, forgave the pain
Let it all go, dropped every chain
Walkin’ in peace, walkin’ in grace
Still got a smile and light on her face
And I’m lookin’ at her like, “How you do that?”
All that hurt… and you still bounce back?
That’s when I realized what love really is
Not control… but forgiveness
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[Hook – stronger, fuller sound]
I’m finally learnin’ how to love myself…
After all that pain, I had to hug myself…
God picked me up when I lost my way
Now I see my life in a different way
I’m finally free from what I felt…
I ain’t gotta hurt just to help myself
Everything I got came from above
Now I walk in truth… now I walk in love
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[Bridge – Luther Vandross feel / memory moment]
Sittin’ on that boat… hear that song play…
Dance with My Father in the wind… take me back that day…
I close my eyes… I can see his face…
Bay Bay smilin’… in a better place…
Now I know he proud… I can feel it now…
Every step
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