Lyrics

[Verse]
Sirens screaming down the concrete block
Four boys playing while the neighbors lock
She’s in the scrubs, pulling double shifts
Keeping us away from the heavy drifts
Taught us how to stand when the world is loud
Single hand lifting us above the cloud
She had a dream that she couldn’t finish
Told us our light should never diminish

[Chorus]
Walk across that stage for me
Be the men I know you’ll be
From the ward to the cap and gown
We won’t let our mother down
Walk across that stage for me
Be the men I know you’ll be

[Verse]
The block was hungry, trying to pull us in
But she saw the grace beneath our skin
Changing bandages and healing souls
Teaching four brothers how to reach their goals
Books on the table, dinner in the pot
Making a palace of the little we got
She didn’t get her name on a paper slide
So she put all her glory in her sons’ pride

[Chorus]
Walk across that stage for me
Be the men I know you’ll be
From the ward to the cap and gown
We won’t let our mother down
Walk across that stage for me
Be the men I know you’ll be

[Bridge]
She worked the night to give us the day
Chasing all the dark and the grit away
Four degrees hanging on the living room wall
She’s the giant standing over us all

[Chorus]
Walk across that stage for me
Be the men I know you’ll be
From the ward to the cap and gown
We won’t let our mother down
Walk across that stage for me
Be the men I know you’ll be

[Outro]