Daddy
The kid would look into my eyes and 
Spit up on my 
Shirt and we would laugh and
Daddy
The kid will shit and wonder
Why I'm making that face and
Daddy
I'd teach the kid how to 
Prank his teachers and disrespect
His Grandparents
And Poppa
I would be the anti-Dad
I'd be the one with the bumper sticker
Proud father of the school 
Bully 
And Dad
I'd teach my child farting is funny
Unless it's at a job interview
And Pop
I'd say nice guys don't always finnish last
And the bad guys don't always finnish first
So why worry about finnishing at all
I would read that part in Tom Sawyer 
The part about the fence over and over
I would look for the noisiest, angriest, ugliest
Action figures with the biggest guns
My kids gonna be on the Hockey Team before the first 
steps
And Daddy
It's not supposed to be
Like this
I was supposed to be responsible and do the right 
thing and be part of the out come
And she won't even return my calls
Doesn't want me making her second guess 
And she could care less what it's doing to me
And I hate lawyers and I hate judges and I hate
Daddy what's hate
It's hitting yourself in the head with a hammer 
And expecting the other guy
To bleed
You don't have to understand yet
Just don't
Hate her right now and I hate court-rooms and I 
hate not being able to do anything
Why couldn't you be one of those guys who just 
Disappears
She says
And I picture myself
Staring at the television in twenty years
Watching some young adult on some new talk show 
Dad if you're out there please call
1800-DEADBEAT
Our operators are standing by
And Daddy
Where's mom
I don't know she won't tell me
And I was warned not to go out and by the baseball
 glove or the easy bake oven
Not even in my head
But I did
But I would be a good father
Or am I to selfish
But I would love my child
Or would I resent
And I don't want to be accountable only when It's 
conveniant
But am seeing that society lets me off the hook
With child support and custodial rights the
Worst case scenario
And I won't listen to the single parent trap crap
I just won't
I was the odd ball & I had both my folks
And I 
And I 
And I
Am powerless
But to wait
And wonder and pray
And Daddy
Who would win in a fight God or The President
And daddy what color is water?
And Daddy can I have a cookie 
And dad where's Kookamunga
And dad how much is a bunch
And dad why are you crying
And daddy what's my name gonna be
And dad will I be gay and dad
How am I gonna know it's you huh?
How am I gonna know Dad, how?
Kid 
I'll be that broken bastard 
The one wondering what you look like
Wondering if you like your school
If you're an aspiring gynecologist
If you really are better off
The one
Who hopes you made the right choices
I pray you'll forgive me if I didn't
         
                  
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