[Intro] [Verse 1] This crib outlived its makers By refusing to explain No manuals, no countdown Just hands repeating hands They didn't call it safety They called it staying close Risk was something carried Not something you outsourced They didn't ask what fails with time They asked what fails without it [Chorus] Heirlooms aren't what survive us They're what question our proof If it held a hundred children Was it reckless — or true? You say love must be measured To earn the right to remain But what if counting danger Is what taught us to be afraid? [Verse 2] Now objects come with verdicts Stamped before they're even used Trust replaced by numbers Memory replaced by rules We say the past was careless Because it didn't know our math But the math didn't exist Until we stopped trusting hands We say they gambled with lives They say we priced them [Chorus] Heirlooms aren't flawed equipment They're witnesses on trial Convicted by the future For lasting too long You call it progress when it breaks And mercy when it's new But what if permanence Was the original safety proof? [Bridge] What if the danger wasn't wood But forgetting who stood watch? What if expiration dates Are how responsibility gets lost? If no one owns the outcome Because the label took the blame Is that safer for the child Or safer for the name? [Break] They trusted people We trust systems They trained hands We train fear They passed down objects We pass down instructions And call it care [Final Chorus] Heirlooms aren't meant to protect us They're meant to accuse us of choice To ask who held the night awake Before compliance had a voice We didn't inherit the danger We inherited the cost Of deciding whether love Should be durable — or replaced when lost [Outro] So throw it out, you're not wrong The rules are clear, the logic clean Just don't call the past primitive For trusting what you've never seen Because someday they'll call us reckless For something we still defend And safety will mean letting go Of whatever dared to last Until then
