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DJ Incognito [TH]
Not Everything Comes Back
Hip-Hop/Rap
Not Everything Comes Back was released on July 24, 2026 by BLAZECOGNITO as a part of the album DISPOSABLE
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AlbumDISPOSABLE
Release DateJuly 24, 2026
LabelBLAZECOGNITO
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM64

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LYRICS

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Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
DJ Incognito [TH]
DJ Incognito [TH]
Vocals
Benjamin Princeton
Benjamin Princeton
Rap, Harmony Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Benjamin Princeton
Benjamin Princeton
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Benjamin Princeton
Benjamin Princeton
Producer

Lyrics

The guns went quiet
The soldiers didn't come home yet
Flashlights still cross the treeline
The detectors still listen to the ground one step at a time
A truck of observers rolls through the village
Different languages one map
They write down numbers
Take pictures
Nod
Drive on
And at the end of the road
A mother asks the same question she asked yesterday
Did you find him
One house already knows
They read the name out loud
They brought him back
They folded the flag
They set the flowers down and burned the incense
There's no good news in any of that
But the truth came home
The truth got a funeral
The other house still has a door that won't close all the way
A plate still gets divided in two
A pair of shoes stays under the bed
Because putting them away means deciding something
Nobody in that house is ready to decide
They ask at the unit
They ask the ones who made it back
Where is my son
Where is my husband
Where is my brother
Some questions they've learned to ask quietly
Some names they've learned not to type
Some families have learned that looking too loudly for one person
Is a good way to lose another
But a question asked quietly is still a question
A post taken down doesn't take a name out of a family
A number nobody announces isn't zero
One house already knows he's not coming home
The other still doesn't know how long to wait
One house lights incense under a name they were given
The other leaves a light on for a question
The guns can stop
The news can change the subject
The screen can scroll away
But the dead don't come back
The missing don't become zero
And not everyone gets carried home
The day it happened the cameras got there before the rain stopped
A microphone reached the shelter door
A drone went up over the broken roofs
They asked the mother how much it hurts
They asked the children if they were scared
One face became a clip
One tear became a thumbnail
The word HERO was printed larger than his name
Far from the line the loud accounts went to work
One side shouting rage the other shouting louder
People who will never smell that mud
Winning every battle from a chair
They counted the views
They counted the shares
Nobody counted how many times the mother
Would have to answer the same question
Nobody counted how many days the word HERO would last
When the numbers dropped the cameras moved
When the feed moved on the word went with it
What stayed was a mother
Saying his real name into the dark
Every night
The same one
One house already knows he's not coming home
The other still doesn't know how long to wait
One house has a grave to stand and cry at
The other has a door it keeps half open
The guns can stop
The statements can close the file
The audience can change the channel
But the dead don't come back
The missing don't become zero
And not everyone gets carried home
The soldiers are still out there not the poster kind
The kind standing in the rain with the smell nobody wants to remember
Some hold the line
Some clear the ground
Some are searching for the men who slept beside them
Some find a name tag
Some find a piece of a uniform
Some come back with nothing
And then have to be the one who walks to the family
The delegations tour the area
The attachés look through binoculars
Officers point at maps
Lines get checked and checked again
Every side writes its own report
No report anywhere explains
How to stand in front of a mother
When you found somebody else's son and not hers
No signature makes a man left on that ground worth less
And no word not sacrifice not duty not hero
Is big enough to cover a life
That got used all the way up
And left the family to gather the truth themselves
If he was really a hero
Why did his name expire with the news cycle
If everyone came home
Why is there a door that never closes
One house already knows who isn't coming back
The other still doesn't know where he was left
The truth is not the same in those two houses
And this song won't lie and say it is
One house has a name a number a body they were given back
The other has a name they're careful where they say
A question they're careful where they ask
And no date to begin the mourning
But one thing is the same in both
The ones who were sent forward
Were all somebody's child first
Before anyone called them soldiers
Before anyone called them heroes
Before anyone cut them into clips
Before anyone used them as a reason
For strangers far from the border to hate each other
They had names
One day the cameras will be back in the city
The hashtags will thin out
The word HERO will be handed to the next story
One house will still light the incense
The other will still leave the light on
One mother knows exactly who to miss
The other still doesn't know
Whether to wait or to grieve
The news went home
The observers went home
The people who shouted in their name
Went home to a new thing to be angry about
But the name of a son
Is still in his mother's mouth
Every night
Every time
The same
Not everything comes back
And some
Were never carried home at all
Written by: Benjamin Princeton

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