You Gave Us a Song

Dad had the tapes, I was just a kid

Didn't know pain, but I felt what you did

Summers were cold, but your voice ran warm

Like a home inside a thunderstorm

I pictured her smile when the chorus would rise

And the light in the window was a crack in the sky

Middle school days, spinning No More Tears

Every riff stronger than my silent fears

You screamed what I couldn't, you howled what I hid

A stranger who knew me more than I ever did

A kid feeling found in a world turned around

Yeah, I was lost and found and turned around

You were the voice in the static

The calm in the madness

A fire that burned through the cold

From metal to mourning

Through heartbreak and warning

You stitched every wound I let show

For every broken kid with no place to belong—

You gave us a song

The truth hit hard, but your voice stayed clear

I kept chasing hope through the darkest years

You pulled me back when the silence grew loud

Still teaching me strength when I couldn't be proud

From changes to shadows, you walked through the fire

A preacher of pain, and a midnight choir

Your tears were our thunder, your whispers our flame

You never gave up, so we stayed in the game

You taught us that wounds can be turned into power

That music could carry us, hour by hour

And I can still hear her last goodbyes

You were the voice in the static

The calm in the madness

The howl in the silence we knew

Through fists in the sky

And tears in our eyes

You made broken feel something like truth

For every soul saved by your shadow and light

You gave us the fight

Yeah, you gave us the fight