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I woke up crying late at night when I was very young
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I had dreamed my father had passed away and gone
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My world revolved around him, I couldn't lie there anymore
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So I made my way down the mirrored hall and tapped upon his door
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And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid, how will I go on with you gone that way?
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Don't wanna cry anymore so may I stay with you?"
[Chorus]
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And he said, "That's my job, that's what I do. Everything I do is
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because of you, to keep you safe with me. That's my job you see."
[Verse 2]
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Later we barely got along, this teenage boy and he
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Most of the fights it seems were over different dreams we each held for me
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He wanted knowledge and learning, I wanted to fly out West
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Said, "I could make it out there if I just had the fare.
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I got half, will you loan me the rest."
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And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid. There's no guarantee in the plans
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I've made. And if I should fail, who will pay my way back home?"
[Chorus]
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And he said, "That's my job, that's what I do. Everything I do is
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because of you, to keep you safe with me. That's my job you see."
[Bridge]
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Every person carves his spot and fills the hole with light
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And I pray someday I might light as bright as he
[Verse 3]
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Woke up early one bright fall day, to spread the tragic news
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After all my travels I settled down within a mile or two
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I make my living with words and rhyme and all this tragedy
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Should go into my head and out instead as bits of poetry
[Chorus]
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But I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid, how will I go on with you gone this
way?
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How can I come up with a song to say I love you.......?"
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"That's my job, that's what I do. Everything I do is
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because of you, to keep you safe with me. That's my job you see."
[Outro]
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Everything I do is because of you, to keep you safe with me....