This Song Is For You
This Song Is For You
Words and Music by Bob Padgett
November, 2004 & November, 2006—Stony Brook, NY
©2004-2006 Clamchop Creative Studio
for you with these unnamed heartaches
What sort of man
is this mystery
He fathered you, yet
you’ve never known him
What you would give
to hear he loves you so
This song is for you
The gifts you have
go unnoticed
He’s never tried
to understand you
Oh how your heart
needs his approval
This song is for you
This song is for you
for all the heartaches I can’t banish from your soul
This song is for you
for all the things that I don’t understand
The hurts that I can’t heal
The pains that I don’t see
Because I love you
This song is for you
A year has passed
since he said goodbye
So many more
till you’ll understand
That you’ll grow up
having missed his life
This song is for you
For that Tuesday
you were ten years old
You needed him
but he never called you
Your life is strewn
with his empty promises
This song is for you
This song is for you
for all the heartaches I can’t banish from your soul
This song is for you
for all the things that I don’t understand
The hurts that I can’t heal
The pains that I don’t see
Because I love you
This song is for you
The things he loved
that he shouldn’t have
The painful wounds
he inflicted
The scars you bear
because he was so weak
This song is for you
A strong man
yet so withdrawn
All the other “sons”
that replaced you
Oh how I wish
he had blessed you, too
This song is for you
This song is for you
for all the heartaches I can’t banish from your soul
This song is for you
for all the things that I don’t understand
The hurts that I can’t heal
The pains that I don’t see
Because I love you
This song is for you
