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Father Of Mine Lyrics By Everclear

    father of mine
    tell me where have you been
    you know i just closed my eyes
    my whole world disappeared
    father of mine
    take me back to the day
    yeah when i was still your golden boy
    back before you went away

    i remember blue skies walking the block
    i loved it when you held me high
    i loved to hear you talk
    you would take me to the movie
    you would take me to the beach
    you would take me to a place inside
    that’s so hard to reach

    oh
    father of mine
    tell me where did you go
    yeah you had the world inside your hand
    but you did not seem to know
    father of mine
    tell me what do you see
    when you look back at your wasted life
    and you don’t see me

    i was ten years old
    doin’ all that i could
    it wasn’t easy for me to be a scared white boy
    in a black neighborhood
    sometimes you would send me a birthday card
    with a five dollar bill
    i never understood you then
    and i guess i never will

    then he walked away
    daddy gave me a name
    my daddy gave me a name
    then he walked away
    daddy gave me a name
    then he walked away
    my daddy gave me a name
    oh yeah

    yeah
    daddy gave me a name
    daddy gave me a name
    then he walked away
    daddy gave me a name
    then he walked away
    my daddy gave me a name
    yeah
    yeah
    oh yeah

    father of mine
    tell me where have you been
    yeah i just closed by eyes
    and the world disappeared
    father of mine
    tell me how do you sleep
    with the children you abandoned
    and the wife i saw you beat

    i will never be safe
    i will never be sane
    i will always be weird inside
    i will always be lame
    now i’m a grown man
    with a child of my own
    and i swear i’ll never let her know
    all the pain i have known

    then he walked away
    daddy gave me a name
    then he walked away
    my daddy gave me a name
    then he walked away
    my daddy gave me a name
    then he walked away
    my daddy gave me a name

    then he walked away
    yeah
    then he walked away
    yeah
    then he walked away
    oh yeah

    Artist: Everclear

    Year: 1998

    Decade: 90s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 196