US 2

[Intro]
Yeah...
You ever look at somebody and realize
They’ve seen every version of you?
The angry one...
The broken one...
The drunk one...
The father...
The man that didn’t know how to hold himself together?
Yeah...
That’s you.

[Verse 1]
Pool hall lights and a late-night buzz
You missed your ride, somehow found us
I was loud, little drunk, little reckless
Probably came off self-centered

Funny thing is you knew everybody around me
Knew my sister, knew my best friend, not me
Crazy how life works when you don’t plan it
One small moment turns into a family

We moved fast, yeah, faster than we should’ve
Whole life built from a night nobody understood
Pregnant in three months, engaged in five
People probably looked at us like “they won’t survive”

Maybe they were right to think it
‘Cause we’re both hard-headed with opinions
Both got tempers, both say things we regret
Both got scars we still ain’t finished with

But—

[Hook]
You stayed...
When I was hard to stand beside
When my head got dark at night
When the world felt cold as ice
You stayed

And I know...
I’m not easy to love sometimes
Got a mind that likes to fight
But somehow after all this time
You stayed

[Verse 2]
Lunch in the van in the middle of workdays
Music turned up while the whole world burns, aye
Living room dancing with a drink in our hands
Laughin’ so hard we can barely stand

Family music nights
Family fight nights
Everybody loud, nobody quiet
That house had life in it
Even the chaos felt righteous

Then life hit hard and it changed the air
Now silence shows up everywhere
But you and me still sit there together
Tryin’ to hold all these pieces together

And honestly?
I don’t think people understand strength
Strength ain’t yelling or pretending you’re okay
Sometimes strength is shaving your head from a lost bet
And still laughing while life falls apart at the edges

Sometimes strength is just—
Showing up again.

[Hook]
You stayed...
When the pressure got hard to hide
When the grief cut deep inside
When we both lost parts of life
You stayed

And I know...
There were nights we barely spoke
Hearts so heavy we went broke
But if I collapse, if I lose control
You carry me home

[Bridge]
Eighteen years...
That’s a lotta memories
A lotta slammed doors
A lotta apologies
A lotta slow dances in the kitchen
A lotta nights we almost gave up and didn’t

People think love’s supposed to look perfect
I think love looks more like surviving
Looks more like scars
Looks more like choosing somebody every day
Even when life gets ugly

[Outro]
So when the music plays
And we’re dancing in that living room again
Little older now
Little more broken maybe
Still you and me

Just like it’s always been.

emotional honesty, pacing, introspection, and cinematic, motional energy and structure while making it yours. Rap