The wind is breathing past my cheek
Walking the road, feeling meek
Ignoring beds of stress I could not lay
Pondering life along the way
Looking for purpose, looking for rhyme
It was just then I heard a chime
Turned around, I saw a sight
Memories recalled along with fright
A man, lonely, sitting in his car
A man who's life has traveled far
His head lain down, trying to feel
His hands firmly against the wheel
Paralyzed, unwilling to move
Thinking the fears he must disprove
His life in shards, but to what length
The absence of what we called strength
I've seen this man times before
It must have been ten years or more
And then it hit me, like a spell
I knew this man, knew him very well
I knew him, the blood pounding in my heart
The man who raised me from the start
Ten years ago, the same old man
A healthy family, that was the plan
The man of the family had all the power
It didn't take long, it all went sour
The foundation crumbled, fell to pieces
Life changed, for kids, nephews, and nieces
So I'm looking at this old man now
No body learned, I'm wondering how
I felt the anger, rising in me
But also, I felt the sympathy
Thinking it was all over, way back then
I truly never wanted to see this again
So go inside the house, and tell your kids goodbye
Silently, I turned my head to cry
Hoping that you'll one day learn
If you can't, this world will burn