The Father's Cry

Don't you remember
When you were a child
You used to sing and shout
Dance and twirl so wild

With such simple faith
You said your prayers every night
Trusting me to answer them
At the glimpse of next daylight

Seeing you grow day by day
Guiding your success all the way
Collecting all your sorrow in my tear bottle
Watching not from a distance, just a prayer away

Hey child, what's gone wrong lately?
This silence is too much to bear
Have we become strangers?
Our yesterdays a faded picture

I yearn to hear you call me Papa like old times
But memory…. is what's left behind

You put on a mask and fooled everyone
But you can't fool me cos' I know you so well
You put on a show to make believe
But your heart is empty I can tell

I yearn to hear you call me Papa like old times
But memory... is what's left behind
I knocked and I called
Shouted and I cried
Child, remember me... I sighed

Don't you recall the day at the altar
You said you'd love me forever and ever
Is the promise too hard to keep
Or has my blessings robbed your time and love for me.