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This was my dad
  Dad
  Friendly as can be
  Oh dad
  A beard and a big tummy
  Giant smiles,
  Emerging from my face,
  Jumping at you but you don't dare flinch
  Please don't flinch
  I love you
  I hear the ice cream truck, Ringing by With its usual melancholy mindset,
  Drilled into my brain And then suddenly, it all leaked into my veins And now
  I'm crying On the sidewalk pointing at a wrapped chocolate bar,
  Dad Distant as a flying bird
  Oh dad
  No hair and your spine now shows
  Where is my dad?
  Vann park hid you so clearly
  Beyond the fence
  I saw you crying
  And picking pebbles out between toes,
  The tears were too much,
  I am afraid of crying with you
  Dying with you
  I can't relate to the people who smile everyday
  It's hard to say that I knew my dad well and was with him every moment until he was gone
  But he was gone When I was born And after that I only remember glimpses of him
  Are they even of him?
  I really don't remember
  If he loved me
  But his bottle really showed
  And the spine that now sticks out of him Haunts me
  Taunts me
  his bald head and hollow eyes still kill me
  The blood is dripping,
  out of my ears
  Oh dad Let me sleep Even if it is the bottle that sings to me
  I listen with you And I care with you
  But all I can remember is your spine.
  
   

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