Khỏe Không Ba (Filial Love)

Lyrics

[Verse 1 — Age 7]
You wrote my name so big it bled through paper
Every lunch bag like a banner for a war
You'd carry me across the rain like nothing
Like your arms had never heard of tired before

Your letters leaned the way you walked through doors
Like standing still was someone else's job
I thought the world was just a thing you'd built
Between your coffee and your morning fog

[Verse 2 — Now]
Your handwriting moved into the corners
Eleven items on the list you managed eight
I started driving on the quiet side
Of every conversation we create

I cut your food on Tuesdays now
You never asked I never make it strange
Somewhere between your keys and my first gray
The locks all switched but no one felt them change

[Bridge — Instrumental]

[Verse 3 — The reversal]
You say you're fine the way I used to
When I was ten and hiding something big
The circuits traded while we weren't looking
You stopped deciding I stopped being kid

I forge your confidence on Saturdays
The way I forged your name on permission slips
You built me floors I'm standing on right now
I'm learning how to build them back like this

[Outro]
Fine you say
The way I used to say it
Fine