**Verse 1**  
Old stories roll out like smoke from your lips  
Generational tales on the porch, calloused hands from tour trips 
Desert wind in your hair, chasing sun down the wire  
With a bus full of dreamers and a pocket full of fire  

Once you ran with the outlaws, a grin and a plan  
Arizona hideouts, Jamaica sand  
Motorcycle thunder, girl by your side  
Wrapped up in trouble, just along for the ride  

**Pre-Chorus**  
But you turned it around, when the morning came  
Traded backroads and shadows for ones honest name  

**Chorus**  
You built us a life out of wood, sweat, and song
Hands never perfect, but always strong  
Taught me that love’s worth the work and the wait  
You showed me the measure of a man isn’t fate  
It’s the way that you carry the weight  

**Verse 2**  
I remember those Christmases, whispers of lean  
How you pulled joy from places the world’s never seen  
Didn’t have riches, but we never felt poor  
You gave all you had—maybe just a little more  

**Pre-Chorus**  
And I see in your eyes, after all that you’ve done  
You’re still humming the tune of the wild days you’d run  

**Chorus**  
You built us a life out of wood, sweat, and song  
Hands never perfect, but always strong  
Taught me that love’s worth the work and the wait  
You showed me the measure of a man isn’t fate  
It’s the way that you carry the weight  

**Bridge**  
Somewhere in sawdust and slow southern nights  
The outlaw grew roots, traded boots for what’s right  
But I know your spirit—untamed, unafraid  
And I learned from your stories, I’m made from what you made  

**Chorus**  
You built us a life out of wood, sweat, and song  
Hands never perfect, but always strong  
Taught me that love’s worth the work and the wait  
You showed me the measure of a man isn’t fate  
It’s the way that you carry the weight  

**Outro**  
Yeah, the way that you carry the weight  
Dad, that’s the way you carry the weight