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Holy

Lyrics

[Intro ๐Ÿ”ฅ][Energy: Mid]
(dark synth bass enters alone)
(programmed drums build underneath)
(choral accent โ€” one hit)

Mummy knows
(yeah)
Daddy's coming home
(always)

[Verse 1 ๐Ÿ”ฅ][Energy: Mid-High]
(brooding, serious, close vocal)
You think faithfulness is weakness
You think commitment is a chain
You think a man who keeps his vows
Is either lying
Or insane

But I've been where you're pointing
I know what that road costs
I know what gets taken
I know what gets lost

So don't mistake my stillness
For a man who doesn't burn
I burn
I just know
Where that fire
Has to turn

[Pre-Chorus][Energy: Build]
(bass climbs, choral accents enter)
They say a faithful man
Is just a man
Who hasn't had the chance

I say a faithful man
Is just a man
Who made his choice
And made it twice
And made it every day
Since

[Chorus ๐Ÿ”ฅ][Energy: Explosive]
(drums crash in โ€” Unholy DNA unmistakable)
(male vocal opens up โ€” defiant, serious, immovable)
Mummy knows
Daddy's coming home
No secrets
No shadows
No body shop
No other phone

I'm holy
Not perfect
But pointed at the light
I'm holy
Faithful to my God
My wife
My daughters
My life

Don't call it boring
Call it chosen every day
Don't call it weakness
Call it knowing
What I'm not
Willing
To trade

I'm holy
I'm holy
Yeah

[Verse 2 ๐Ÿ”ฅ][Energy: Mid-High]
(drops back slightly โ€” still brooding, more personal)
Thirty four years
And she still has my whole heart
Not because I never stumbled
Not because I'm set apart

But because I made a covenant
Not a feeling
Not a phase
And covenants don't bend
To moods
Or seasons
Or bad days

And my God has been my anchor
When the current pulled me hard
And my daughters have been watching
Every single yard

So I stand here in the culture
That says faithfulness is dead
And I say โ€”
Watch me
Watch me
Instead

[Pre-Chorus][Energy: Build]
(choir rises, bass more urgent)
They say a faithful man
Is just a man
Who hasn't had the chance

I say a faithful man
Is just a man
Who looked at everything
That called to him
And walked
Back
Home

[Chorus ๐Ÿ”ฅ][Energy: Explosive]
Mummy knows
Daddy's coming home
No secrets
No shadows
No body shop
No other phone

I'm holy
Not perfect
But pointed at the light
I'm holy
Faithful to my God
My wife
My daughters
My life

Don't call it boring
Call it chosen every day
Don't call it weakness
Call it knowing
What I'm not
Willing
To trade

I'm holy
I'm holy
Yeah

[Bridge ๐Ÿ˜ญ][Energy: Low]
(everything drops โ€” synth bass alone, heartbeat slow)
(vocal forward, almost spoken, weight of 34 years behind it)
Let me tell you what this actually costs

(beat)

It costs you every time
The culture says you're missing out
Every time the world says
Take what you can get
Every time the lesser thing
Comes dressed as something better

(choir hums underneath, barely audible)
And you look at it
And you name it
And you walk
Back
Home

Because home is not a consolation prize

Home is
Everything

[Bridge ๐Ÿ”ฅ][Energy: Explosive]
(full production slams back โ€” harder than before)
And my God saw everything I am
Before I chose to follow
And loved me anyway
And called me anyway
And kept me anyway

And my wife has stood beside me
Through every hard year
Every wrong word
Every valley

And my daughters โ€”
My daughters โ€”
Are watching what a man
Who stays
Looks like

I will not
Waste
That

[Final Chorus ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ][Energy: Explosive]
(overwhelming โ€” full choir, drums driving, bass thundering)
Mummy knows
Daddy's coming home
No secrets
No shadows
No body shop
No other phone

I'm holy
Not because I'm better
I'm holy
Because I'm covered and I chose
I'm holy
Faithful to my God
My wife
My daughters
My life

This is what it looks like
When a man decides
This is what it looks like
When a covenant
Survives

Don't call it boring
Don't call it old fashioned
Don't call it anything
But chosen
Every
Day

I'm holy
I'm holy

Mummy knows
Daddy's coming home

[Outro ๐Ÿ”ฅ][Energy: Low][Fade Out]
(dark synth bass returns alone โ€” same as intro)
(choral accent โ€” one final hit)
(silence)

Mummy knows

...daddy's coming home

Always