Defiant and Alive

How's everybody doing tonight? Good. Hey, I wanna take

a minute before we start. You see, I grew up in a small

town, nothing fancy, just dirt roads, old barns, and the kinda

nights where you could hear the wind through the cracks in your window.

My parents worked hard, real hard, and most days it felt like

the world was pushing me down before I even had a chance to stand up.

But I learned, I learned to walk tall to find my own music in

the silence, my own rhythm in the chaos. I remember sitting on the porch