[Verse 1]
He built his whole identity on what his hands could do,
Keys under his fingers, courts to push through,
Every rep, every scale, every drill run right,
But thirteen hit different in the dead of night,
The scoreboard went quiet, the bench felt long,
He sat with the silence and still stayed strong

[PreChorus]
The things he lost this year cut clean to the bone,
But he never once learned how to carry alone

[Chorus]
Brody, every door you knocked on made you who you are,
Brody, the calluses you built will get you far,
You didn't fold when the whole foundation cracked,
Brody, that's not something you can ever take back

[Verse 2]
He felt it first in a text that didn't come back through,
That hollow spot in the chest only heartbreak knew,
He memorized the plays, he learned the chords by ear,
But nobody hands you a roadmap for this kind of fear,
He carries more inside than most men twice his age,
Reading every room before he steps on stage

[PreChorus]
The grief he holds runs deeper than he'll say out loud,
He learned to stand beneath the weight of every cloud

[Chorus]
Brody, you kept showing up when showing up was hard,
Brody, you've been steady since before you knew the word,
The chair at the table that stayed empty hit for real,
Brody, what you carry now is also what you'll heal

[Verse 3]
He pressed his palms to the keys the night the dog went still,
And something in that minor chord bent against his will,
He's got a grandpa's grit embedded in his spine,
A quiet kind of power running deep in his design,
He thinks in angles other people haven't drawn,
He keeps on building even when the blueprint's gone

[PreChorus]
He moves like someone who has always known the cost,
And counts what's left before he mourns what's been lost

[Chorus]
Brody, you were put together tough and warm and true,
Brody, every break just showed what couldn't break in you,
The court, the keys, the grief, the girl, the empty chair,
Brody, look at everything you learned to bear

[Bridge]
He pressed that final note and let it ring out long,
Not because it fixed a thing but because he still belonged,
The losses made a ledger but the ledger isn't full,
There's more of him arriving with every push and pull

[Outro]
Brody, this is just the start of everything you'll build,
The strongest parts of who he is are still being revealed