Her Weathered Youth

Verse 1

She sat me down at the kitchen table

Wrinkled hands around a lukewarm cup

Said listen close now while I'm able

The stories that we can't give up

Her eyes went dark like storm clouds rolling

Before the bombs and the burning night

She said they took our neighbors and our names

But never took our inner light

Pre-Chorus

She showed me how to fold the letters

How to hide the words between the seams

Small acts that made us braver

Quiet moves inside the machine

Chorus

Grandma taught me how to fight

Not with fists but with the right

To remember who we are

When the world forgets the scars

Grandma taught me how to stand

With nothing more than steady hands

And a truth they can't erase

Written on a hidden face

Verse 2

She told me about the basement radio

Static whispers in the dead of night

Neighbors passing coded messages

Under cover of the fading light

How they fed the ones who hid

How they shared their meager bread

Small rebellions in the kitchen

Words that nobody else said

Pre-Chorus

She showed me how to read the shadows

How to walk without a sound

How the smallest act of kindness

Is the loudest holy ground

Chorus

Grandma taught me how to fight

Not with fists but with the right

To remember who we are

When the world forgets the scars

Grandma taught me how to stand

With nothing more than steady hands

And a truth they can't erase

Written on a hidden face

Bridge

She never raised a weapon

Never threw a single stone

But she built a wall of witnesses

And she never stood alone

Her weapon was remembering

Her armor was the truth

She fought them with a story

Told from her worn and weathered youth

Chorus

Grandma taught me how to fight

Not with fists but with the right

To remember who we are

When the world forgets the scars

Grandma taught me how to stand

With nothing more than steady hands

And a truth they can't erase

Written on a hidden face

Outro

She taught me

She taught me

She taught me how to fight

Oh-oh

She taught me

She taught me

How to hold onto the light