Months of waiting
Counting down the days weeks and minutes
Waiting in line for hours
In the cold and rain
All just to be in the same room as you.

To hear you sing those lyrics
That can cheer me up in a matter of minutes
As if you're singing them just to me.

To be in a room full of people who love you like I do
To hear the words that make me feel okay again
Even when I'm not.

High school has taught me a lot.

How to hurry to get my class on time
How to finish homework in ten minutes
How to get so stressed out I can't breathe
To feel like the world is falling down on me
How to accept that people are gonna leave me
But one thing it hasn't taught me
Is how to be happy.

I want you to pick me up and spin me around
And to look down to see you grinning.
I want to you to tuck  me in at night
And  check under the bed for monsters.

I wanna go back to when life was easy
And I didn't have anything to worry about
Back before everything changed.

Before I had to go to Indiana just to see you.
Before I was lucky to see you once a month
Instead of every day.
Before I felt like I had two families Instead of one.

Now I'm tucking myself in at night
And I know that monsters aren't hiding under my bed or in my closet.

I've learned that I'm too big to get on your shoulders
And I don't need to be tucked in anymore
And being my dad is all you ever have to be.