she’s a good girl but she knows better,
there’s misery in staying together.
and she’s old enough, to hate her mother,
and to believe that the guy she’s seeing has one lover.
and I see her on the weekends, she says it’s a lot like hanging out with her best friend.
does that make me a cool dad?
Or just the worst role model a young kid could ever have.
and I’ll, be proud, of however you turn out.
and I’m sorry, If I failed, If I messed you up somehow,
I was just trying to figure it out.
She still asks me, how were the noughties?
did your old band just give up completely?
Did you an mum ever think to abort me?
come on now you know I’m no good at talking.
I’ll admit it weren’t easy,
Tory tax cred and selling old ciggarrettes
that your mother brought me,
before she worked out I’m going nowhere,
and she left, she said "with you, I’m always miserable."
I don’t blame her it’s cool, maybe I should’ve stayed in school,
and maybe you should too.
i”ll build a fort, when everything is sea,
promise to give you more time than they gave me.
I’ll teach you all, the things that I believe,
we don’t kill the little things we set them free.
credits
from Elm Grove,
released November 27, 2016
Joe Blackford
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