Not to be a cynic with a dark personality But I got a story in true actyality That happened to me one time when the sky was black I was walking one night down a lonely street With no one in particular expecting to meet me When I saw a red glow from a cigarette just ahead Well I wasn't thinking much with the buzz I had But the closer they got I knew that something bad Was about to do down I was as sure as the day is long It'd beed fifteen years since I'd seen his face And it took me right back to that nasty place Where the beer bottles scattered around With the shame and the fear and I said, Hello daddy what are you doing here How are you doing daddy I've been missing you About as much as I can for what you put me through Momma's looking good now too no thanks to you I'm doing pretty good now I'm back in school I finally got a guy that treats me pretty good I'm trying to make plans but you know how it is Well he didn't say a word he just kept staring I thought, maybe my talking got the old man caring about What he had what he left and where he is now If I'm walking through a dream lord don't you wake me now But as usual quite the opposite was true He was drunk as me and probably twice as confused He had that Mr. Hyde kook in his eye that I'll enver forget He didn't seen to care what I'd done or learned The only thing he was really concernet about was Whether he could get more beer before everything closed And as sad as I was I had to laugh out loud Because the daughter he should've been so damn proud of Had a little bit too much tonight af the bar I was crazy naive por even thinking That I'd ever come before this man's drinking And as I watched him walk away to the corner store I thought, Maybe I'll see you in fifteen more...