00:11In the quiet of a young man's prayer
00:18A call he thought he heard so clear
00:49He was a Christian boy with a badge in his eyes
00:54Felt the Lord pointing him toward the thin blue line
00:57Then the towers fell on a clear September day
01:04And the call shifted hard toward the military way
01:07Boots ready, hardlocked, willing to serve and fight
01:11Until the injury came to close
01:13Every door that night
01:18Disqualified from the force, from the ranks, from the dream left
01:22Holding nothing but the weight of what might have been
01:32Then the news hit hard, his brother in arms was gone
01:38Falling in the dust of Iraq, name edged in stone
01:44Years of black nights
01:47Failure stocking like stones
01:51Feeling useless, discarded, completely alone
01:59One night the darkness whisper just ended here
02:03He chambered the round finger on the trigger of fear
02:07One pound of pressure from forever goodbye
02:10When the frying pan crashed in the kitchen nearby
02:14Mom cooking, then a metal hitting the floor
02:17That single sound stopped the pole at the door
02:20He froze in the silence, heart pounding loud
02:24And a voice filled the room, not a whisper, not a shout
02:28Tell the story
02:34Tell the story
02:40Eight months later, the paperback was in his hands
02:45Written for the friend who died in foreign sands
02:48From the page to the lens, from the lens to the song
02:52He kept telling the story
02:53Where the world ignored so long
02:56No one was listening
02:59Or so it seemed
03:01That the dots were connecting
03:05In the places unseen
03:11He poured out the pain into films and into tracks
03:16Every frame, every lyric, a map of the cracks
03:19The injury, the loss, the almost triggered night
03:23The frying pan miracle that brought him back to life
03:26Yet the story stayed buried under noise and denial
03:30While the ones who already knew just watched and smiled
03:33Connections in the footage
03:35In the footage, articles that rhyme
03:36Threads that only the awake could find
03:39In time
03:42He asked, what do you want from me?
03:45Got a book
03:46And the book became the first spark of the look
03:49Then the cameras rolled
03:51The songs were produced
03:53All to say what the silence had so long
03:55Refused the hidden truth
03:57Wasn't hidden from the ones who see
03:59It was written in the failures
04:02The almost death, the plea
04:03The story was never unheard
04:06It was waiting for the key
04:09Now the final piece falls
04:12And everyone can finally see
04:17Tell the story
04:24Tell the story
04:31From the passion never was
04:33To the war that took his friend
04:35From the trigger that almost fired
04:37To the pen that made him bad
04:39From the book in his hands
04:40To the songs that still remained
04:42The truth was always there
04:43Now it can't be contained
04:45Those who know
04:48Already know
04:53And the rest are about to
04:58One pound of pressure
05:05One drop pen
05:12One voice that said
05:14Tell the story
05:30Tell the story
05:33Tell the story
05:45Tell the story
05:48Tell the story
05:49Did you have to
05:49Tell the story
05:49To the story
05:49Tell the story
05:53There's a story
05:53I said
05:53I could say
05:53To the work
05:53All to la-
05:54I kind of
