[Intro]
[Very soft piano only]
[Voice intimate and clear]
You always felt so distant
Like the world pulled you away
And I spent so many years
Trying to understand the pain
As a child I could not reach you
So I learned to stand alone
Still, beneath the heavy silence
I felt love inside your soul
[Verse 2]
[Soft cello slowly enters]
Now I’m older, now I see you
Through a different kind of eyes
I have carried fear inside me
I have frozen too, sometimes
And now holding my own children
I can finally understand
How love feels so overwhelming
That you shake just holding hands
[Chorus]
So rest now, Dad
You don't have to fight anymore
I can understand you now
Like I never could before
[Chorus continued]
And if souls can hear each other
When they leave this world behind
Please take some of the shadows
Still lingering in my mind
Take the wounds that never healed right
Take the fear I could not name
Let it end with us completely
And let only love remain
[Verse 3]
[Piano and cello warm and intertwined]
You were searching for connection
Where the pieces wouldn't stay
But I know beneath the brokenness
There was goodness all the way
When the world grew small around you
And the noise inside grew dim
I could see your truest heart
Shining quietly within
[Bridge]
[Instruments strip back down, voice exposed]
[Tempo slows down]
Dad…
Help me live without this weight
Help me stay when love feels close
Help me break the chains behind us
For the ones I love the most
[Bridge continued]
No more fear
No more running
No more passing down the pain
[Final Chorus]
[Sacred, gentle choir rises softly, but strictly no drums]
So close your eyes now
You don't have to hold on anymore
You are wholly forgiven
You are loved, of that be sure
And if peace exists beyond us
Then I hope it finds you there
Whole at last, and finally free
From the hurt you could not bear
[Outro]
[Music slowly fading out to solo piano]
Take a little of the shadows
That still linger deep in me
And leave behind
Only compassion
Only love
Only peace
[Fade to silence]
