Intro
Sold the truck to pay the lawyer, sold the lawyer's faith for time
Every contract that we signed was written in between the lines
Learned to read the spaces, learned to live inside the wait
Learned that moving slow sometimes is how you navigate
Verse
Fifteen years watching Pops get smaller in the chair
Hospice nurse with gentle hands, we couldn't afford her care
So my sister learned the catheter, learned the morphine clock
Learned that love ain't theory when you're holding what you got
Brother quit his college, said the tuition money's yours
Now he's working doubles at the warehouse, healing sores
On his palms from loading, on his chest from what he swallowed
Every meal he didn't eat so we could have tomorrow
Momma's still got that same coat, patches on the patches
We could buy her new one, but she wears it like a atlas
Every burn and every stain is proof that we survived
Every thread she wouldn't let us throw away is why we're alive
Creditors came calling, we just kept the answering machine
Said we didn't have the words, only time and gasoline
Chorus
This is how we honor it, honor it, honor it
Every scar and every sacrifice, we honor it
This is how we honor it, honor it, honor it
Every hand that held us up, we honor it
Verse
Watched my nephew learn to count in increments of rent
Watched him understand that childhood was a luxury we spent
On his older sister's school supplies, her books, her chance
Now she's teaching inner city kids their second glance
At a future that ain't written yet, at a hope that's earned
At a path that's marked by people who refused to turn
Back to what was promised, back to what they said we'd be
We became the answer to a question nobody asked of free
Grandmother in the garden growing greens on concrete seams
Selling mason jars of pickled hope to neighbors with no means
Every family that she fed stayed rooted, stayed aware
That survival ain't a solo thing, it's soil that we share
Now the garden's got a name, now the block knows where to come
Now the legacy's the lesson that we built it, now we're young
Chorus
This is how we honor it, honor it, honor it
Every scar and every sacrifice, we honor it
This is how we honor it, honor it, honor it
Every hand that held us up, we honor it
Bridge
They say strength is what you carry when you got no other choice
We say strength is what you choose when silence had a voice
We say strength is in the detail, in the dinner kept warm late
In the signature, the promise, in the nerve to recreate
Outro
Sold the truck but kept the memories, that's the only way it works
Built the future on the backbone of everybody's hurt
Now we stand like monuments to people who refused to break
This is how we honor it, this is how we create
