Loved With Conditions

Yeah

I learned silence from depression

Watched it settle in my chest

Women move the room around me

And the word is made a test

Men be hurtin' in the shadows

But the headlines never see

Mental health is not a weakness

It's the war inside of me

Love with condition

That's the weight I had to hold

Still I rise through the tension

With a heart that won't recall

That I hear the broken voices

When the strong ones hit the wall

But I'm sinning for the fathers

For the wounded, for us all

Yeah, single father to a daughter

Now my vision cut more clear

When I look into a future

I refuse to live in fear

I will be the one she follows

I will be the light she needs

Alpha born from all the struggle

Still I plant my better seeds

The world may try to aim me

But I know what I became

A man who keeps on building

While he carries hidden pain

Love with conviction

That's the weight I had to hold

Still I rise through the tension

With a heart that won't grow cold

They don't hear the broken voices

We ain't strong, let's hit the wall

But I'm standing for the fathers

For the wounded, for us all

Deep in the urban soul, I turn the hurt into a flame

For my daughter, for my brothers, I will never shrink my name