[Verse 1] You came in knocking, jibes like thunder, broke every bone I thought was steel. I cursed your name in the blood and the wonder, swore I’d never kneel. [Pre-chorus] But every crack you left in me, let the light come pouring through. What I thought was cruelty, was mercy dressed in you. [Chorus] The hand that reshaped me, the son who carried the weight, the spirit that stayed when the whole world walked away. Through the pain and the fire, through the dark and the fall, you gave me the hurt that saved me, the doorway to it all. [Verse 2] I spent years running from the shadow you cast, chasing women and mischief and noise. But the silence you left was the only thing that lasted, the only real voice. [Pre-chorus] And in that quiet I finally heard, the truth behind the pain. You didn’t give me what I wanted, you gave me what I couldn’t name. [Chorus] The hand that reshaped me, the son who carried the weight, the spirit that stayed when the whole world walked away. Through the pain and the fire, through the dark and the fall, you gave me the hurt that saved me, the doorway to it all. [Bridge] Irony of ironies, the man I admired most, handed me the key to heaven, when he nailed me to the post. [Final chorus] The hand that reshaped me, the son who carried the weight, the spirit that stayed when the whole world walked away. Through the pain and the fire, through the dark and the fall, you gave me the hurt that saved me, and I thank you for it all.
