Testo Daddy’s Girl - Queen Butterfly
Testo della canzone Daddy’s Girl (Queen Butterfly), tratta dall'album Daddy’s Girl
Daddy's Girl
I remember that trailer shakin' in the wind
Homework by candlelight again
Mama boilin' water on the stove for a bath
Tryin' to make a broken life last
You'd come home smellin' like smoke and sin
Sayin' "baby girl, I'm gonna quit" again
And I believed every damn word you said
Cause little girls still need their dads
I didn't understand why the lights wouldn't stay on
Why our TV disappeared and the bills got gone
Why we slept in shelters while you disappeared for days
I just knew I missed you in a hundred different ways
Back then thought the drugs meant
You ain't love us enough
Now I know addiction can turn
Good men into dust
And I was Daddy's girl
Even when the world said I shouldn't be
Even when your demons chose the drugs over me
I still waited by the window every night
Hopin' you'd come home and hold me tight
Now I'm older and I finally see
You were broken long before me
A little boy nobody saved
Tryin' to outrun a grave
And all those ghosts you carried still
Followed you until they killed
The man I thought could conquer anything
I was Daddy's girl
They blamed you for your brother dyin'
Like a fifteen-year-old boy should've stopped the timin'
But nobody blamed the loaded gun
Or the father that should've locked it up
So you carried that weight your whole damn life
Like guilt was stitched into your spine
And every needle, every line, every high
Was you tryin' not to feel what was inside
I remember watchin' pawn tickets fall
Out the pocket of your overalls
That's how we found out where our stuff had gone
And why the house kept emptyin' out
You were the only man that ever made me feel safe
The only one I trusted wouldn't violate my space
And people may not understand why I still defend your name
But broken men can still protect their babies through the pain
When you died, my brother tried to step into your shoes
But Mama kept him locked away in homes he couldn't choose
So I learned real young how lonely this world can get
When every man you trust gets stolen by addiction or neglect
The last thing I ever told you
Was I hated you
God, if I could take back one thing
It'd be that phone call
Cause the next day you were gone
And I was twelve years old
Tryin' to understand how somebody can love their babies
And still lose to their pain
Maybe that's why I hold people at a distance now
Why love still feels dangerous somehow
Cause the two men that ever truly made me feel secure
Spent their whole lives fightin' wars they didn't deserve
And I'm still Daddy's girl
Even after all the hurt and chaos
Cause now I know addiction ain't as simple as betrayal
Sometimes people are at war with themselves
Long before they ever fail somebody else
And I forgive you for the birthdays missed
For every Christmas ruined by this
Cause underneath the drugs and shame
I know you loved us just the same
And people talk about you like you were just your vice
But they didn't see the man who held me when I cried
Didn't see you stand between us and the world some nights
Didn't see the parts of you that still deserved life
So no
I won't let the drugs become your whole story
Cause before the overdose
Before the pawn shops and apologies
You were my dad
And I was Daddy's girl
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