Paul Shapera - Daddy Left lyrics

[Child on mannequins screen] Past the world Past the night Past the stars where seabirds fly Past your dreams to toil and shore Where we will meet again once more [John O'Brien] I sat beside your bed on the night before I left While you slept, I had my say I know I had some drinks, I explained you everything About why I couldn't stay My anger and my grief, liquor, pain, and broken dreams I was no good for you, babe They offered me a way to quench my thirst for blood and rage And so daddy went away Your daddy went away Your daddy went away The hole in which I fell didn't want for you as well So daddy went away I became the hand of karma, of wrath and fire and fodder The terror in their night The monster in the basement, the ogre of damnation And the man inside died But then one day the rage was all gone and what remained Was a chasm in my chest The only thing that mattered, the child I turned my back on The girl I should have kept But daddy left Daddy left Your daddy left The things that I have done The wrath that I have wrung The widows who have wept The beast that I've become The judgment and the blood You must forget, or be crippled by regret Your daddy left Your daddy left Your daddy left Your mother was my life, my heart and soul and wife She blew up and was gone, I didn't know how to go on I didn't know how to accept [Child on mannequins screen] Past the world Past the night Past the stars where seabirds fly [John O' Brien] I wish for your forgiveness, I wish the past was different I wish I would have known I wish for stars and sails, pipe dreams and fairy tales But atonement time has flown And if somewhere you hate me, and your memories of me faded And resentment's all you know You can take some consolation, that at the sad end of his days Daddy will die all alone Daddy will die all alone There's no one else that's that left Just this room and war and d**h Your daddy's all alone