Author's Note: This is an original song and may not be used without my express written consent. All copyright belongs to me.

Hey Dad how are you?
You're doing things you wanted to
I guess you thought that I'd just forget
About how you left my mom and me
I spend my time wondering
Do you ever feel anything like regret?

Even though you're gone I still think of you
Wondering what it would have been like
If you had just stayed to help us through
Was it really so very hard
to live with your broken heart?
When mom was gone and I was all alone

Do you ever wonder what became of the boy you left behind?
Do you ever miss your wife or think about all the lost time?
You could have stayed with us, we could have been a family
But you chose to leave us and now it's finally time for you to see:

We made it without you but your absence still was there
Did you ever stop and realize that no one ever filled your empty chair?
I'm not saying that I miss you
Because I really don't
But for my Momma's sake it would have been better
To have you back at home

Momma said your weak because you left when I was young
Did you ever stop and think that your absence really stung?
I took over everything you did there was lots of things I missed
And I still don't understand how you could walk away from this

But I guess that's probably for the best because there's one thing that I knew
It's that I would spend the rest of my life trying not to be like you.

Nothing will change the way that things are
Nothing you say can take away these scars
But deep down inside I still wish that I knew
What it would have been like to get to know you

As much as I hate you as much as I try
I still want your approval and I don't know why
It's not like you loved me it's not like you cared
But I still wonder would you come back? would you have dared?
Could I really forgive and love you again?
I think I could do it if you tried then.

But since your gone I won't understand.
I guess when these things happen it's not anything we plan
But still I hold the hope inside and I hope that you know
As much as I want to I can't let this go
Trying to say all that I could to get through
So I know that this is my goodbye to you.