[Verse 1]
Fifteen years on this floor. I count everything.
Arrival times. Form. Who racks their plates. Who talks.
You — eight weeks in, one exercise you do half right —
you have opinions about him.
Sit. This will be brief.
[Chorus]
You say he walked around like he was better than you
He was. Next question.
You say he never smiled at you
Correct. You never earned one. Next question.
You say nobody's really that disciplined
I watched five thousand mornings prove you wrong
Next question. Next question.
[Verse 2]
I read the writing on his hoodie the first week.
I knew what it meant. I knew what he was.
So I watched — that is what I do, I watch —
and in fifteen years the man missed nothing, asked for nothing,
and moved iron you cannot load
at an hour you have never seen.
Consistency is the only god on this floor,
and he kept the faith better than anyone I've buried —
and I have buried memberships, darling.
Whole friend groups of you.
[Bridge]
The pretty ones came for him in shifts. Two months each. Like seasons.
He answered their little questions through the headphones
and never once — fifteen years, not ONCE — took the bait.
You know what that is? That is a finished man.
You are still wet cement. Anyone can write in you.
[Chorus]
You say he thought he was better
He was. He is. Wherever he lifts now, he still is.
You say this gym's the same without him
The gym is a building. He was a standard.
Buildings stay. Standards walk.
Next question.
[Outro]
Rack your plates.
Fix your grip.
Come back in fifteen years.
Then we talk.