DADDY IS GONE

WE USED TO GO OUT WALKING
ACROSS THE MEADOWS WIDE.
THE HOURS WE'D SPEND TALKING
AND LAUGHING SIDE BY SIDE.

HE TOLD ME OF HIS CHILDHOOD,
HIS MOTHER AND HIS DAD.
HE LET ME SHARE THE MEMORIES,
THE GOOD ONES AND THE BAD.

HE JOKED ABOUT THE HARDSHIPS
THE STORMS OF LIFE WOULD REAP.
HE TAUGHT THE WORDS OF FRIENDSHIP
TO EVERYONE HE'D MEET.

WHEN WAKING WITH EACH MORNING SUN
I'D ALWAYS FIND HIM NEAR.
I NEVER THOUGHT THE TIME WOULD COME
WHEN HE WOULD NOT BE NEAR.

I THOUGHT THAT I COULD SEE HIM
JUST ANY TIME I CHOSE
AND HOW IT HURTS TO LOSE HIM...
I'M SURE...GOD ONLY KNOWS...

BUT MEMORIES HE LEFT ME
TO JOURNEY THROUGH THIS LAND
WILL LAST TILL I'M IN HEAVEN
WITH DADDY ONCE AGAIN.