Follow the Scars
"Follow the Scars (From Broken to Becoming)"
"Follow the Scars (From Broken to Becoming)" · Written & produced by Matthew Love
Streaming & video coming soon
Waypointers · Broken Champions
I'm not the light. I point to it. Written for everyone the world counted out — the ones sitting in the wreckage of their worst day.
Follow the Scars
"Follow the Scars (From Broken to Becoming)" · Written & produced by Matthew Love
Streaming & video coming soon
Galatians 6:2
"Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ."
Galatians 6:2
This song belongs to them. On a trail, a waypoint is a mark left by someone who went ahead — proof the path is real and that you're still on it.
Broken Champions doesn't send strangers with clipboards. We send people who have been in the wreckage, who came out, and who go back to stand at the exact spot where they fell and say: this is the way, you're not alone.
Dream Teams meet returning citizens at the gate — or before it — because the first seventy-two hours decide the next ten years. Housing, ID, a ride, a phone number that answers. Somebody who carries the weight with you until you can carry it yourself.
Every verse in this song is written from inside that job. The first one is the wreckage. The second one is what you become when you go back and stand in it for somebody else. That turn — now I stand a Waypointer — is the whole mission in one line.
36.5%
Indiana 3-year recidivism · 2021 releases
72 hrs
The window that decides the next decade
12
People on a Dream Team · one covenant
The Way · Now forming
People who've been through it learn to walk alongside someone who's still in it — service practiced before release, not improvised after. Dream Teams form in crews, and every crew commits to a name, not a caseload. This song is their anthem.
The Truth · In the field · Indiana
The ride, the ID, the phone number that answers. Seventy-two hours decides the next ten years, and nobody should spend them alone in a parking lot with a paper bag.
The Life · Building
Work, housing, ownership, and a future worth staying out for — then the turn that matters most: the person who was carried starts carrying somebody else. That's when a champion comes out of the dust.
In Production
A short film about the four words nobody wants to hear, and the people who make sure somebody else never has to. Same story as the song, told in pictures — the wreckage, the hand that reaches in, and what gets built afterward. Teaser coming soon.
About this release. "Follow the Scars (From Broken to Becoming)" was written and produced by Matthew Love. © 2026 Broken Champions / uMattery Federation. All rights reserved. Broken Champions is an Indiana 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 41-4019197); uMattery Inc. and L.O.V.E.-O Inc. are separate for-profit entities.
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