STILL YOUR DADDY

(T SYD) (Gen ct) (Sub ft/dad) (BPM 78) (Key F) (M ld) (F hm) (Mood redemp)

(Intro) (ac gtr) (808 lt) (pad)

(V1)

I ain’t here to play perfect, I’ve messed up more than once

Chased work, chased love, chased bottles tryin’ to numb

But there’s one thing I never dropped, not one single day

The way I whisper both your names at night when I pray

I remember tiny tennis shoes kicked up on my dash

Windows down, singin’ off-key, laughin’ till we crashed

Not the metal, just the moment when the song ran out of road

Didn’t know one day that’s how this whole story’d go

(PC1)

They can call me selfish, they can call me wrong

They can say I disappeared, like I was never strong

But there’s a truth that don’t change even when I’m not ready

No matter where I’m standin’… I’m still your daddy

(CH1)

I’m still your daddy, even when the phone don’t ring

Even when your picture’s just a cracked screen memory thing

Even if you think I chose the world instead of you

Baby, if you only knew the hell that put me through

I’m still your daddy, every mile I ever drove

Every tear behind the wheel that you will never know

You can write me out the story, fade me in the attic

Nothing you could ever do could make me not your daddy

(V2)

I see posts of birthdays I watched from far away

You in cap and gown, and I ain’t there that day

I hit like and scroll on, ’cause what else can I do?

Try to smile, but I’m dying ’cause I wanted that with you

I ain’t askin’ you to fix the choices that I made

Just hopin’ one day you see more than my mistakes

If the man you end up lovin’ ever breaks your heart in two

I pray to God he’s nothing like the younger me you knew

(PC2)

When the noise dies down and it’s just you and the dark

If you ever go searchin’ where you got your stubborn heart

You can find me in the mirror, in the temper, in the steady

And in the way I never quit, ’cause I’m still your daddy

(CH2)

I’m still your daddy, even when I’m not around

When my boots ain’t leavin’ prints in your hometown ground

Even if they told you I walked off and didn’t care

Truth is I was on the other side of doors that weren’t fair

I’m still your daddy, through the distance and the doubt

Through the years we never got to work this whole thing out

If the only thing I get to be is the man who loves you badly

I’ll wear that crown of broken, long as I’m still your daddy

(BR)

One day if you’re drivin’ and this song comes on the dial

And some part of my voice feels like a childhood mile

Just know behind the melody, behind the steel and caddy

There’s a man who never stopped bein’ your broken-hearted daddy

(CH3)

I’m still your daddy, that won’t ever change

Not a courtroom, not a rumor, not time or last names

If you ever need a place to fall when life turns savage

You don’t even have to knock… come home to your daddy, I’m still your daddy

(Outro)

(ac gtr) (str swell) (vox adlib “still your daddy, still your daddy”) (fade)