Dad

DAD

don't look back, don't kneel, don't shout.
Hold on my hand. I'll stand by you
look back, believe, don't ask
(daddy said it's fine, it's not a waste of time
said everything is fine)
grab on my hand, so stand, and trust.
(daddy said it's life, that cut you like a knife,
if you 're not set in time)

keep going, no one knowing, no one need turn on the volume
if we make it still alive, I'll laugh, and laugh at you
day in day out and after, children play I hear their laughter
pay me back some other day, it's me, but it's not you

keep going, no one knowing, no one need turn on the volume
if we make it still alive, you'll laugh, so I laugh at you
no matter who may gather, you will laugh at one another
on the kitchen there's my mother, you, but nor for me.

cause you're the best of me, the best of me to come
you're begging me, so beg me to grow up,
a black tie thing, I'll never be, I know you're begging me,
so beg me honey, come.

But you lie. There's no sky. There's no God above me.

is that me? on the kitchen floor?
knock on my mama's door?
there's no children there.
but you're not sorry, no. not sorry.
and I gave up. and I try – no more.