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I remember this afternoon |
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When my sister came into the room |
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She refused to say how my father was |
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But I knew he'd be dying soon |
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And I was oh so glad and it was oh so sad |
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That I realized that I despised this man I once called father |
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In his hanging on with fingers clutching |
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His body now just eighty-eight pounds |
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Blinded eyes still searching for some distant dream |
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That had faded away at the seams, dying alone naturally |
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I was his favorite child, I had him a little while |
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Just as long as I could play the piano and smile a little smile |
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Just when I needed him most, he was already a ghost |
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And for all my life there where promises |
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And they always have been broken |
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Leaving me alone with all my troubles |
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Not ever once touching me and saying |
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"Daughter, I'll help you get over" |
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Now he's fading away and I'm glad to say |
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He's dying at last naturally |
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It's a very sad thing to see that my mother with all her heart |
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Believes the words that the Bible said, ''Til death do us two part' |
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For her that was forever and ay, he decided her night and day |
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How could some English words so small affect someone so strangely? |
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Taking her away from us, her soul included |
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She might es well be gone with him, all the children are excluded |
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Loneliness is hell, I know so well |
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For I'm alone naturally |
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I waited three weeks for him to die |
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I waited three weeks for him to die |
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Every night he was calling on me, I wouldn't go to him |
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I waited three weeks for him to die, three weeks for him to die |
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And after he died, after he died, every night I went out |
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Every night I had a flight, it didn't matter who it was with |
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'Cos I knew what it was about and if you could read between lines |
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My dad and I close as flies, I loved him then and I loved him still |
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That's why my heart's so broken |
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Leaving me to doubt, God in His mercy |
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And if He really does exist then why does He desert me? |
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When he passed away I smoked and drank all day |
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Alone again naturally |
