[Verse 1]
I prayed in the desert, young and scared,
Told God, “Just let me make it somewhere.
Give me a chance to leave my name,
Something real when I’m long gone away.”
[Verse 2]
Years rolled on and I learned the cost,
You can come home breathing and still come home lost.
Now I’ve got a boy with a laugh so wide,
Pulls a smile from me on my worst nights — and it reminds me why…
[Chorus]
They don’t care who I can be,
They only want the man who shows up at the end of the day.
One calls me Dah-day, she’s the one who lights my way,
They keep me steady when the world shakes down.
Yeah, I’d bleed, I’d crawl, I’d change my ways,
For my two reasons, my house of grace.
[Verse 3]
My woman’s still here through the wreck I’ve been,
She don’t fix me, she just lets me live.
I used to tell her, “Have a little faith,”
And somehow, she still does to this day.
[Chorus]
They don’t care who I can be,
They only want the man who stands up at the end of the day.
One calls me Dah-day, she’s the one who lights my way,
They keep me steady when I start to break down.
Yeah, I’d bleed, I’d crawl, I’d change my ways,
For my two reasons, my house of grace.
[Spoken Bridge] (quiet spoken bridge, close-mic, warm and reflective tone, soft dynamics like a private confession)
When you hear this again someday,
Know your old man wasn’t fearless — just stubborn enough to keep trying.
I prayed for you before I knew your names.
When the world got loud, you were the quiet that grounded me.
I don’t have it all figured out,
But I’d burn the rest of the world down to keep your light.
[Final Chorus]
They don’t care who I can be,
They only want the man who shows up at the end of the day.
One calls me Dah-day, she’s the one who lights my way,
Two little hearts, my blood, my grace.
Yeah, I’d bleed, I’d crawl, I’d change my ways,
For my two reasons, my house of grace.
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