[Verse 1]
Brown couch, thrift store fade
Bills stacked like a homemade staircase
Empty fridge, but the pot still sang
“Boy, we blessed,” yeah, that’s her catchphrase
Turned two eggs to a Sunday feast
One pair of shoes into five school years
She’d laugh loud over late-night dishes
“Baby, watch me bend the atmosphere”
[Chorus]
She said, “Anything, baby
You can do anything, baby
I made a way out of nothing
You were the reason I kept running
Anything, baby
You can do anything, baby
I turned this air into oxygen
So you could stand there and breathe it in”
[Verse 2]
Hand-me-down jeans, ironed sharp, no crease missed
She stitched stars in my backpack seams
Walked me past all those shiny houses
“Take a good look, this ain’t just a dream”
Held my face when the grades came low
“Baby, they don’t test your fire
They don’t know you like your mama knows you
You got the sky hiding in your eyes”
[Chorus]
She said, “Anything, baby
You can do anything, baby
I made a way out of nothing
You were the reason I kept running
Anything, baby
You can do anything, baby
I turned this air into oxygen
So you could stand there and breathe it in”
[Bridge]
[Beat drops to claps and bass]
Now I’m on stage, lights in my face (hey!)
See her front row, hands up, eyes glazed (ooh yeah)
She’s yelling, “That’s mine, that’s my son right there”
Like she just pulled a throne from a folding chair
[Chorus]
She said, “Anything, baby
You can do anything, baby
I made a way out of nothing
You were the reason I kept running
Anything, baby
You can do anything, baby
I turned this air into oxygen
So you could stand there and breathe it in”
[Outro]
Anything, baby (anything)
Say, anything, baby (anything)
From my first step to this big stage
You wrote “impossible” on a torn-out page