[Verse 1]
Same house
Same last name
Still felt like a guest at my own birthday
Photos on the fridge
All frame and angle
But nobody saw when my hands would shake
Then you crashed on my couch at two in the morning
Pizza box throne and a borrowed hoodie
You said
"Call me if it ever gets heavy"
And you actually showed when the weight got ugly
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You're my family
Thicker than blood
You ran in when the sirens came up
When the ones who raised me just raised their hands
Saying
"What can we do?" while they just stood back
You stitched my heart with your busted thumbs
You held the line when the line went numb
Yeah
I learned something truer than love
Some bonds beat the ones we’re born from
Thicker than blood
[Verse 2]
Holiday table
Fifteen open chairs
But it always felt colder than the winter air
You knew all my secrets
Every broken plate
Still never used 'em like a knife in my face
We built this tiny tribe out of late‑night calls
Out of shared cheap coffee at the mall food court
You drove all night when my world went dark
Didn’t need a reason
Just left me the porch light
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[Bridge]
We don't match on paper
Different stories
Different scars
[low vocal register] But you were there in the empty waiting room
When they checked my heart
[gang vocals] "You'll never do this alone"
You yelled it over the phone
And I believed it
I believed it
More than anyone I share a name with
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