| 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
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| For some distant dream that had faded away at the seams.
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| Dying alone, naturally.
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| I was his favourite 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 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
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| I wouldn’t go to him.
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| I waited three weeks for him to die
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| Three weeks for him to die.
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| And after he died, after he died
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| Every night I went out, every night I had a flight.
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| It didn’t matter who it was with
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| 'Cos I knew what it was about.
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| And if you could read between lines, my Dad and I close as flies.
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| I loved him then and I loved him still, 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. |