But daddy I want to let you know somehow
The way these days just rip along
Too fast to last, too vast, too strong
Though it's fainter now the older I become
Soon all your plans and changes
Somewhere something went wrong
Though among the regrets that I can't get by
Living your life day after day
I don't know why it was so hard to talk to you
Either fail or fade away
And listening to our own heart beats we stood around the drum
Along beside your seventy-eights
There are just one or two unkind things I said to you
Leave me watching and wishing I could follow
Or maybe we forgot the song
All in search of truth and bound for glory
Make room for my forty-fives
Leaving so much still left to say
The things you said are so much clearer now
Daddy what was I supposed to do?
No sooner had I hit the streets
And I would turn the pages back but time will not allow
When I met the fools that a young fool meets
I guess my anger pulled me through
