Intro -Soul Sample

Dear mama found your old diary

Pieces finally falling into place

Now I'm sitting at your kitchen table

With questions I don't know how to face

(Know how to face )

Hook -Melodic Pain

Some wounds sleep beneath the surface

Some pain never shows its face

But I watch you dance with shadows

While teaching me to stay in place

(Stay in place )

Verse 1 -Memory Flow

Remember watching you in mirrors fixing up your hair

Something in your reflection seemed to take you somewhere

Sunday dinners you'd get quiet when they'd talk about back then

Before you came along -conversations always seemed to end

Age seven caught you burning photos in the yard

Flames eating memories while you stood there standing guard

Asked you what was burning you just kissed my head and smiled

Said Some pictures baby better left behind a while

Hook

Verse 2 -Realization

Found your high school yearbook hidden in the attic dust

Pages torn in places like time breaking trust

Certain dates you never speak about certain years just fade

Into silence heavy as a prayer that's left unpaid

Started seeing patterns in the way you raised your son

Never trust too easy was your lesson number one

Always kept me close like shadows might return

To claim the light that you fought decades to earn

Hook

Verse 3 -Understanding

Now I'm older reading stories in your distant stare

In the way you flinch at kindness like it might not really care

In how you taught me strength before you taught me ABC's

In the midnight prayers I wasn't supposed to see

Some nights I hear you crying through these paper walls

Voice like broken vinyl playing memory's calls

While I piece together fragments of the truth you hide

In the spaces where your laughter learns to reside

Outro

So mama this letter's for the girl you had to leave

In the chapters that you never let me read

Your strength's a language written in the dark

While my love's the light that guards your heart