Dad...

I was just a little kid still in elementary

Tears running down my face, at the cemetery

Father locked up in prison most of my childhood

He was always concerned that his child would

Grow up fatherless cause his father messed up

I was just four when the police had him pressed up

against the wall with his hands cuffed behind his back

I watched out the window as he got taken away in a car of white and black

He was sentenced to life in prison but left early cause he was ill

My mother saved up money so we could fly from Brazil

I walked into his hospital room to see a woman by his side

I spent a couple of hours in the room until my father died

I know it's been a while but I loved him all my life

He missed all my birthdays, what I have is his old knife

I never felt depression before, it was a big surprise

I watched him aimlessly as they closed his lifeless eyes