- damn time flies, thinking back when you were knee high
- ...the most beautiful accident
- that will probably ever happen
- in this lifetime of mine
- in the morning i rise with a thought on my mind
- wondering how much different living would be without this distance
- like waking up to you in the kitchen
- chilling, eating cereal and hearing you
- tell school stories from your point of view
- blue moments on the hour ride after i embark
- don't feel like i failed, more like i kinda missed the mark
- every minute at your soccer games, i treat like gold
- fighting back a tear when you almost score a goal
- or bring home straight a's, chopping away at what was saved
- rewarding your report card even tho it's late
- by a month or two, i'm just trying to do
- the best that i can do, just because it's you
- hoping one day you'll understand, this wasn't in the plan
- but in the grand scheme i'm still a helping hand
- the world has no tape or cup big enough to
- show me what it is i have to measure up to
- to put it in perspective if i was to make reference
- i'm an ant about to climb mount everest
- you've done your best and never less
- whether active in the yard or in a hospital bed
- one of the greatest dad's a son could ever have
- when i was good you'd congrat, when i was bad you'd whoop my ass
- like that time you chased me like a mouse, bouncing from couch to couch
- my only means of escape was a b-line out the house
- every beating had a meaning, a lesson learned
- and i'd never take it back, so no concern
- and thru every up and down, i try to make you proud
- unashamed to say you love me and speak it loud
- and again my eye starts leaking,
- proving all that speaking was never leaving
- the opposite earhole it entered
- i'm now more centered and feel indentured
- well aware that some have one that never bothered
- so i'll never take for granted you, my father.
credits
from The Happiest Sad Face,
released February 26, 2013
Written by Carl Kavorkian
Produced by Lou Cypher
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