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With your memory swimming 'round my head |
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Though Daddy you're dead and gone |
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I'll sing you this song |
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Of all I should have said |
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"Let me tell you, Jonny |
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That you ain't worth nothing without money |
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And all the time you've been away |
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First turned to months and now years |
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You oughta by now have some kinda career" |
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Oh but Father, gladly |
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Dear Daddy |
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I'll Stay far away from you |
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How can I grow up tall |
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Don't mean to be cruel |
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When you always make me feel |
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But Daddy |
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I'm more than a fool |
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Inches small? |
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I was no more than a baby |
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When you told me, "stop that cryin' |
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It's making me angry |
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And one day, well just maybe |
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When you grow up you'll learn to shut up |
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And fake a smile like your dad |
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Whenever you are sad" |
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But Father, sadly |
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Dear Daddy |
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I'll stay far away from you |
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No it's not true |
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Don't mean to be cruel |
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Because you see this son's love |
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No, Dear Daddy |
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Has always surrounded you |
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When the whole world seemed so unkind |
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When the words in the storybook no longer rhymed |
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And when the sun would refuse to shine |
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I'd run and hide in that secret place in my mind |
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Wipe the tears off my face |
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And there I'd find that for a moment |
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But for a moment |
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The shadow of your presence seemed to lift and fade away |
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When the whole world seemed so unkind |
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Father didn't you notice the rat race? |
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Were you never aware that the fear was written all over |
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your face? |
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I guess you never knew your story was a blank page |
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But most of all dear Daddy |
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Did you ever notice me? |
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Oh Father |
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I never meant to be cruel |
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But farther |
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And farther away |
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I stayed from you |
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Though I've always loved you |
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I was the one to walk out that door |
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But Father your heart departed |
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Father your heart departed |
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Long, long before |
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Oh Father didn't you notice the rat race? |
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Were you never aware that the fear was written all over |
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your face? |
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I guess you never knew your story was a blank page |
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But most of all, dear Daddy |
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Yes most of all, dear Daddy |
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Did you ever notice me? |
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So I'll hold to the happier times |
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The endless summer days at the beach |
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As you lifted me over the waves and held me so high |
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It was then that I could believe |
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I believed I could fly high! |
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Safe with my dad by my side |
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Wish you could know me now |
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We'd be great friends |