[INTRO – JAZZ PIANO, VINYL CRACKLE] Yeah... Sometimes pain gets handed down before anybody knows its name. But it doesn't have to keep moving. [VERSE 1 – STORYTELLING RAP] Raised where the love felt thin, Words cut deep, called discipline. Every scar had some explanation, Still left marks on a generation. “That's how I was raised,” they'd say, Like old pain made it all okay. Same reaction, different face, Same old fire in another place. I didn't know what I carried then, Till I heard myself sound like them. Saw that hurt come through my ways— That's when something had to change. [PRE-CHORUS – FUNK GROOVE] What you bury... finds a beat. What you practice... you repeat. But when you finally see the chain— You can choose what leaves your name. [CHORUS – MELODIC SOUL-POP] Hurt people hurt people— yeah, that happens. But pain ain't permission to keep the pattern. Every scar don't decide what I do. I can heal without handing it to you. Hurt people hurt people— I know. But I don't have to let that grow. What came through me doesn't leave through me. It ends with me. [VERSE 2 – JAZZ RAP] Every trigger got a root somewhere, Every reaction learned a prayer to survival— fight or run, hurt somebody before you're the one. Then I stopped long enough to ask: Is this today, or is this the past? Am I talking to who's in the room, or somebody else from an older wound? Looked back— started understanding. They were hurting too, barely standing. That can explain where damage began. It doesn't excuse what damage does. Compassion and boundaries both can live. Understanding doesn't mean I keep getting hit. I can forgive without calling wrong right. I can love and still draw a line. [PRE-CHORUS] Break the chain... name the pain. Feel the hurt without becoming the same. [CHORUS – BIGGER] Hurt people hurt people— I know. But I choose not to let that grow. Every scar don't decide what I do. I don't pass that pain to you. Hurt people hurt people— that's real. But wounded people can also heal. What came through me doesn't leave through me. It ends with me. [BRIDGE – SAXOPHONE, RHODES, BASS] [SAX SOLO] [SOFT VOCAL] It stops here. Not because I forgot. Not because it didn't hurt. Because I finally learned— healing doesn't rewrite yesterday. It changes what tomorrow receives. [VERSE 3 – CONFIDENT RAP] So when anger knocks, I don't hand it keys. When fear gets loud, I don't let it lead. When old words rise in the back of my mind, I can hear that voice without making it mine. Maybe strength is saying, “I was wrong.” Maybe courage is breaking what lasted too long. Maybe family means changing the script so the next set of hands doesn't carry this. No perfect ending. No overnight cure. Just one more choice to make love more sure. One conversation. One apology. One boundary. One new legacy. [FINAL CHORUS – FULL FUSION] Hurt people hurt people— that can be true. But healed people can heal people too. Every scar doesn't tell me who I'm destined to be or what I must do. Hurt people hurt people— I know. But mercy gives another road. What came through me doesn't leave through me. The chain stops here. It ends with me. [CHOIR] Break the chain... Make the change... [LEAD] I can honor where I came from without repeating all the pain. [CHOIR] Break the chain... Make the change... [ALL] WHAT HURT ME DOESN'T GET MY FINAL NAME. [OUTRO – PIANO + VINYL] [Quiet] I understand it now. That doesn't mean I have to continue it. [PAUSE] Ends with me.
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