The Journey of a Boy with Three Fathers

Here is a soulful R&B/gospel-style song that captures the pain, secrecy, discovery, and healing at the heart of your memoir.

A Boy with Three Fathers

Verse 1

Three fathers, three stories, three different kinds of pain,

One gave me his blood, one gave me his name.

One tried to raise me in the only way he knew,

But I kept searching for a love I never knew.

They carried the title, but were they truly dads?

Did they ever understand the childhood that I had?

I learned to hide my questions and cry without a sound,

A lonely little boy with no safe place to be found.

Pre-Chorus

I never asked for secrets,

I never chose this road.

I was only a child

Carrying a grown man’s load.

Chorus

I’m a boy with three fathers,

But who was a father to me?

Three different men, three different wounds,

Three chapters of my history.

What they buried in the darkness

Could not stay hidden forever.

Now the truth shines like a light

On a boy with three fathers.

Verse 2

This book began the moment I first opened my eyes,

Before I knew the meaning of secrets and lies.

A story written for me before I had a voice,

I inherited the consequences of somebody else’s choice.

One father was a question, one father wore the name,

One stood somewhere between the love and all the pain.

Each one left a mark upon the man I came to be,

But none of them could take away the truth inside of me.

Pre-Chorus

I never asked for silence,

Or shadows from the past.

But every hidden answer

Found its way to me at last.

Chorus

I’m a boy with three fathers,

But who was a father to me?

Three different men, three different wounds,

Three chapters of my history.

What they buried in the darkness

Could not stay hidden forever.

Now the truth shines like a light

On a boy with three fathers.

Bridge

A father may give you his blood,

A father may give you his name,

But a dad gives you love and protection

And stays when life brings the rain.

I cannot change my beginning,

But I can decide how it ends.

I’m no longer that frightened child

Trying to understand those men.

The darkness no longer owns me,

The silence no longer remains.

I gathered the pieces of my story

And made something strong from the pain.

Final Chorus

I was a boy with three fathers,

Searching for where I belonged.

Three different men, three different truths,

But somehow I still grew strong.

What was covered in the darkness

Now shines brighter than ever.

I found my name, I found my truth—

I found the strength to remember.

I was a boy with three fathers,

But my story belongs to me.

I survived the pain they left behind,

And the truth has set me free.

Outro

Three fathers…

Three secrets…

Three wounds I carried together.

But I found the man inside the boy—

The boy with three fathers.

Written by: Greg MD