Daddy,
why won't you listen to me.
Please hear my silent plea,
you so often ignore.
Why can't you see my pain?
Just once, I wish you'd say;
"I love you, simply because you are you."
Why can't you admire my compa**ion?
My soul?
That you don't even know,
yet cries out for recognition.
Why have you never heard my plea?
A plea to understand who I am.
Grew up believing,
everything you did was right.
I tried so hard to please you.
Yet I always fell somehow
short of your expectations.
Why did I fail to win your love?
Why have you never hear me cry?
Why have you never listened to me?
You have hear my words,
but you never understood
what I was trying to say.
I really did try to be
what you wanted me to be,
I just never knew how.