I Love My Dad

Song I Love My Dad
Artist Sun Kil Moon
Album Benji

Lyrics

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[00:11.23] When I was young my father taught me not to gloat.
[00:19.67] If I came home too proud of myself
[00:23.35] I get wrestled to the floor and choked.
[00:28.54] But I forgive him for that.
[00:31.73] He was an eighth grade drop out
[00:34.42] and I was being a brat.
[00:37.42] I forgive him, I do.
[00:40.35] I know that he loves me
[00:42.85] and he knows I love him too.
[00:45.92] When I was young my father told me,
[00:50.56] to each his own.
[00:54.37] The lady said as she kissed the cow,
[00:58.87] some like the fiddle,
[01:00.99] some like the trombone
[01:03.49] and I live by that rule.
[01:06.18] Your trip is your trip
[01:08.44] and my trip is my trip too. Yeah,
[01:12.25] I'll mind my own business.
[01:14.93] Oh, having no rules in my friend here have.
[01:20.37] I love my dad.
[01:22.47] I love my dad.
[01:24.66] I love my dad.
[01:26.72] I love my dad.
[01:28.91] I love my dad.
[01:30.97] I love my dad.
[01:36.97] Your kid goes to the private
[01:40.09] Berkley school with one black kid.
[01:45.47] My kid goes to the public school,
[01:49.22] came home with cracked ribs.
[01:54.53] And when my kid's eighteen
[01:57.33] he'll be out there like
[01:59.27] I was and probably chasing his dreams.
[02:03.27] And when your kid's twenty-two,
[02:06.14] he'll have an internship at a law firm
[02:09.77] and hey that's okay too.
[02:11.46] When I was five I came home from
[02:13.96] kindergarten crying cause they
[02:16.10] sat me next to an albino.
[02:20.10] My dad said son everyone's different,
[02:23.98] you gotta love em all equally.
[02:29.10] And then my dad sat me down,
[02:31.91] he said you gotta love all people,
[02:34.79] pink, red, black, or brown.
[02:37.41] And then just after dinner he played me
[02:41.10] the album They Only Come Out At Night by Edgar Winter.
[03:02.85] When I was young my dad
[03:05.36] taught me the beauty of patience.
[03:11.67] We'd go and hang with his friend
[03:13.98] Billy Brislin all day in his Stubenville basement.
[03:20.23] We'd watch wrestling matches on TV
[03:24.04] and Billy couldn't move cause he was handicapped.
[03:29.12] And I learned to shoot the shit,
[03:31.94] and how to care for those in need
[03:35.56] and to show respect.
[03:37.18] When I was a kid my dad brought
[03:40.25] home a guitar he got from Sears.
[03:46.00] I took lessons from a neighbor lady
[03:49.37] but it wasn't going anywhere.
[03:54.00] He went and got me a good teacher
[03:57.81] and in no time at all I was getting better.
[04:03.25] I can play just fine.
[04:06.19] I still practice a lot but not as much as Mills Climb.
[04:24.26] When I was young my dad
[04:26.88] told me to pay gossip no mind.
[04:33.45] When people talk bad on you you gotta
[04:36.95] flick it off your shoulder like a fly.
[04:41.89] Learn to pick your punches, don't get no tussles,
[04:48.76] dead in ditches. Life is short young man,
[04:53.70] get out there and make the best of it while you can.
[04:58.82] I ain't trying to say my dad
[05:02.07] was some kind of a perfect saint.
[05:07.26] When something set him off,
[05:09.31] I hit the floor quicker than what
[05:12.44] Mike Tyson did to Ricky Sveen.
[05:16.31] I hit the floor so fast,
[05:19.17] but that was so long ago
[05:22.91] and we both moved past.
[05:24.60] My life is pretty good, I owe it to him.
[05:30.04] My dad did the best he could.
[05:33.54] I love you dad
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