How can I explain it to you?
Some people attach themselves to memories
without ever really walking into your life.
Life changing presences
are rarely around for the long haul.
After all, the long haul is for safe people who don't make history
Not your daddy.
I would have risked the homewrecking
And broken vows
Even now when I look in your eyes.
It could have been far more complicated
if I wasn't such a safe person
and if he wasn't the kind of man
I hope you'll be someday.
I can't pretend I'm not hurt. I can't pretend I don't care. And yet I know when a time's come.
Songwriters with demons as big as Wyoming
and rain falling though late evening summer sun
will always make me think of your daddy
And how bad I am at goodbye.
