My Father’s Hands

Daddy why you have to go

And break my heart again

Daddy I was just a baby

I didn’t know how to make you stay

Back then

Way back when

 

If you took everyone you knew

And formed an army

That fought for peace and love

You could search the world Five,

maybe ten times over

And you could come and find us

Don’t you want to find us?

Out there

Somewhere

Somewhere out there

 

Ill be looking in the eyes of a stranger man

And all I got from him were my two hands

Daddy why’d you leave us all alone

I never had a father to call my own

And I’m losing ground I’m falling down

Do you know how that feels?

 

Daddy I was just a baby girl

And Ive missed you a lot

But you just miss your scotch

Daddy you could find us if you tried

And we could start to write

Before a million years fly by

I’ll be all grown up

I’ll be all grown up next time

 

When I’m  looking in the eyes of a stranger man

And all I got from him were my two hands

Daddy why’d you leave us all alone

I never had a father to call my own

And I’m losing ground I’m falling down

Do you know how that feels?

-Tomi Hoxton

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