For Better or Worse

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ © 2025 Adam Natoli all rights reserved. I'm happy for my work to be used, but please be polite and credit me for my writing or show that it's a remix of my original piece. Thank you 😊 [Verse 1] [Man] You weren't much of a father... but I was still your son... [Woman] A boy that needed a role model... yet he never got one... [Bridge] [Man] It's not that I hate you because I never could... [Woman] It's that he missed you more than a son ever should... [Chorus] [Man] Oh-woh-oh! You hated yourself, and that made you stray! You couldn't confront it, so you ran away! But for better or worse... You've forged the man I am today! Oh-ah-oh! And I'm doing better than okay... (I'm okay!) [Tempo shift] [Woman] I've seen him cry so many times... pulling at his heartstrings through all his rhymes. He wants to do better. He wants to succeed... [Man] I know what I missed out on... so I know the love that they need... No, I won't give up... I won't give in... coz I can feel this fire burning within... [Spoken woman] He's breaking this cycle... [Bridge] [Man] It's not that I hate you because I never could... [Woman] It's that he missed you more than a son ever should... [Chorus] [Man] Oh-woh-oh! You hated yourself, and that made you stray! You couldn't confront it, so you ran away! But for better or worse... You've forged the man I am today! Oh-ah-oh! And I'm doing better than okay... (I'm okay!) [Woman] You broke this cycle, and you did it alone... You gave all of yourself to set this tone... [Spoken man] It's not about me... I did it for them... [Bridge] [Man] It's not that I hate you because I never could... [Woman] It's that he missed you more than a son ever should... [Chorus] [Man] Oh-woh-oh! You hated yourself, and that made you stray! You couldn't confront it, so you ran away! But for better or worse... You've forged the man I am today! Oh-ah-oh! And I'm doing better than okay... (I'm okay!)