(Verse 1) Remember chasing shadows, down a long and lonely hall You were the king, the answer, standing ten feet tall I hung on every promise, every word you ever said Worshipped the ground you walked on, laid your crown upon my head Our family portrait was my faith, framed in solid gold But a fracture formed in silence, a story left untold. (Chorus) Then the tide turned, the waters pulled away When the guilt came calling on that fateful day A brother’s broken body, an echo in the room And my dad, he bowed his head down, sealed up in a tomb He knelt before my brothers, made them the only kings And I became a ghost in the family of things. (Verse 2) My body screaming secrets, doctors’ words like heavy stones But back at home, a silence, brittle in my bones I fought the war in quiet, the chemo in my veins While they whispered 'bout my brother, and his permanent pains My cancer story wasn’t real, just a footnote in the past A sickness of the spirit, too fragile for it to last. (Chorus) And the tide turned, the waters pulled away When the guilt came calling on that fateful day A brother’s broken body, an echo in the room And my dad, he bowed his head down, sealed up in a tomb He knelt before my brothers, made them the only kings And I became a ghost in the family of things. (Bridge) Then a hand reached out, a lifeline in the gray Aunt Lorraine, with her quiet way Saw the cracks they painted over, heard the things they never said She fed my body, fed my spirit, gave me life instead She held me up when no one else would spare a single thought The love they took for granted, was the war she gladly fought. (Chorus) But the tide turned, the waters pulled away When the guilt came calling on that fateful day A brother’s broken body, an echo in the room And my dad, he bowed his head down, sealed up in a tomb He knelt before my brothers, made them the only kings And I became a ghost in the family of things. (Outro) I thought I worshipped a hero, a man I could depend on But heroes don’t forget their children, when the other sons have gone So I’ll thank my Aunt Lorraine, for giving me a place to be And let my father bow to them, while Lorraine gives life to me.