His footprints are fading away from the beach
 We're not a family to pray or to preach
 But daddy's best friend took a handful of pills
 And now he's at a podium making a speech
 Yesterday night after dark
 He carefully wrote his remarks
 But everyone said what he put on his page
 So he threw it way and went straight from the heart
 I thought this was a party
 But all my friends are leaving
 And I still want to play
 You wrecked me when you stepped out
 Cause you're the wounded healer
 And you're supposed to stay
 A year's a bottle in a bucket of trash
 It'll tip over the more that it stacks
 Didn't notice it till now but dad's been
 Moving slower every time we go play catch
 I'm scared of the day when he'll carry a cane
 I carry his dream
 I carry his name
 And when papa is gone he will never be gone
 Because the sound of our sneeze is the same
 God bless I
 Hear your voice
 In mine
 I want to stop time
 Like a carnival ride
 Because
 I don't know what I'm saying but I mean it (repeat)

 I thought this was a party

 I thought this was a party
 But all my friends are leaving
 And I still want to play
 You wrecked me when you stepped out
 Cause you're the wounded healer
 And you're supposed to stay