[Verse 1]
You worked Boeing thirty-some years,
Paint stuck deep in your rough hands.
House smelled like eucalyptus,
Like coffee brewing in the mornings and old ceiling fans.
I used to think there wasn’t nothing
A man like you wouldn’t fix.
Then I came out…
And suddenly I was something you couldn’t sit with.
[Pre-Chorus]
You didn’t yell.
Didn’t slam doors.
Somehow silence hurt more.
[Chorus]
Cold blood.
That’s lying about camping
So you don’t have to watch your grandson graduate.
Then showing up for somebody else’s kid
Like I was that easy to replace.
Cold blood.
That’s hugging everybody in the room but me.
That’s calling my mama asking how everyone’s doing
Then skipping right over me.
And maybe you’ll swear it wasn’t hate,
Maybe you’ll say that’s not what this was—
But people don’t erase their own family
In cold blood.
[Verse 2]
Thanksgiving at your house,
Everybody laughing, passing plates around.
My sister brought her boyfriend with her—
Nobody said a word about it then.
But when I asked if mine could come,
You said, “No. It’s family only.”
And I remember sitting there realizing
You stopped seeing me as family first.
[Pre-Chorus]
Funny how rules change
Depending on who somebody loves.
[Chorus]
Cold blood.
That’s lying about camping
So you don’t have to watch your grandson graduate.
Then showing up for somebody else’s kid
Like I was that easy to replace.
Cold blood.
That’s hugging everybody in the room but me.
That’s calling my mama asking how everyone’s doing
Then skipping right over me.
And maybe you’ll swear it wasn’t hate,
Maybe you’ll say that’s not what this was—
But people don’t erase their own family
In cold blood.
[Bridge]
[Soft]
I used to wish I had your last name.
Thought carrying it would’ve meant something.
Anything felt better than being tied
To a father who never acted like one.
[Building]
Now I sit here looking at both of you
And wondering how two men so different
Could make abandonment feel exactly the same.
[BELT]
‘Cause one disappeared before he knew me—
And one disappeared the second he DIDDDDDDDDDDDD!
[Final Chorus]
Cold blood.
That’s making your daughter lose her father
While he’s still walking around alive.
That’s teaching me family matters
Then disappearing the second I stopped hiding.
Cold blood.
That’s watching us hurt and saying nothing at all.
No apology. No honesty.
Just silence down the hall.
And maybe you sleep fine at night,
Maybe you think giving up on me was love—
But people don’t abandon their own blood
In cold blood.
[Outro]
No…
People don’t erase their own family
In cold blood.
AustinChavez
