I heard he sang a song One that would resonate Fill our empty minds With a little cheer And I heard he was 10 feet tall With thighs like dense boulders Type of man God himself would fear Slowly the words Became the truth But they don't know Who I knew He was my father But I wasn't his son He used to make me feel As a child like a man He held me in his rough arms and in that moment I found out It didn't take blood to be a kin But they still tell tales Of the things he did Who he did them for And who he was And the little that was said
When I found him he was So close to gone Hardly could chew the food I gave him He was huddled in a corner A blanket over his banging head A man who I believed could trample A stampede of Bulls Let alone men. But he was suffering and cold They left that out in the stories And the bottle beat his body As well as his mind And left him But it was him Still hard to comprehend But I held him in my arms Like he did for me When I was young I hope he's proud of the man I am The man is gone But he still wanders and hides In the shadowed corners of my mind