you're a father who abandoned your children
when we were at a sensitive age
your a father who abandoned your children
and that's how I want it to stay

you reckon it was mum who had left you
and that she had taken us away
but was you who started a new family
and forgot about the one you'd made

you said you need someone to do all your cooking and cleaning
what you meant was another slave
now I realise everything you said had a double meaning
you condemned yourself trying to be saved

I never once saw you with mum in the grand stand
you didn't show up for my 21st birthday
you didn't turn up for my wedding
you don't even know my kids names

now you rock that chair on the veranda
with all the symptoms they say
of almost full blown dementia
slowly waisting away