# WISH YOU COULD MEET WHO I BECAME **(Verse 1)** I wish you could meet who I became, See how much I've changed since you left this place, See the scars on my heart and the work in my hands, See how I'm still chasing every dream that we had. I wish you could hear these songs when I write 'em, Hear every word and know that you're inside 'em, Every time I talk about family and pain, There's a piece of your memory hiding inside every page. I wonder if you'd recognize me now, Would you shake my hand or just laugh at me somehow? Would you tell me I'm crazy for chasing these dreams? Or tell me keep going when nobody believes? I wish you could've seen every battle I fought, Every time I almost quit, every lesson I bought, Every night I stayed up trying to figure life out, Every time your memory gave me another way out. **(Hook)** I wish you could meet who I became, Wish you could see that I still carry your name, Wish you could see every step that I made, Every mountain I climbed, every promise I gave. I wish you were here to witness it all, To see me get back up every time that I fall, You never got to see the man I became, And that's one of the things that will always fucking hurt. **(Verse 2)** I got older, got wiser, got harder to break, Learned some lessons that I wish you could've helped me take, I learned that tomorrow ain't promised at all, So I stopped waiting for the perfect moment to call. I started looking at life through a different lens, Stopped taking for granted the people I still have, Started telling them I love 'em while they're still here, 'Cause losing you taught me how expensive silence gets. I wish you could've watched me turn pain into art, Turn memories into music, turn grief into heart, Turn every scar into something that shines, Instead of letting your absence destroy what was mine. And sometimes I wonder if you're proud of me, If somewhere beyond this life you can still see, If you can hear every song when I speak about you, If you know every word comes from a heart that's still true. **(Hook)** I wish you could meet who I became, Wish you could see that I still carry your name, Wish you could see every step that I made, Every mountain I climbed, every promise I gave. I wish you were here to witness it all, To see me get back up every time that I fall, You never got to see the man I became, And that's one of the things that will always fucking hurt. **(Bridge)** There's so much I would've shown you, So much I would've said, So many nights I would've called you Just to tell you what was in my head. And maybe somewhere out there You're seeing me somehow, So if you're listening, brother, I hope I'm making you proud. **(Final Hook)** I wish you could meet who I became, But I know you'd probably recognize the same, Still your brother, still stubborn, still fighting through pain, Still carrying your memory wherever I go every day. And when I finally reach everything I'm chasing, When the whole world knows the name that I'm making, I'll still look at the sky and remember where it started, Two brothers with dreams and a bond death couldn't take from me. I wish you could meet who I became, But I'll keep becoming someone worthy of your name.
