Lyrics The God Father - Dan Bull

The God Father

Quick, come in, and hold your shoulders up, we’re in for a winter\nCold enough to split skin cause your fingers to splinter\nFlick the flint to the tinder, and then the tinder to timber\nIf we don’t protect the cinder, then the wind’ll extinguish the glimmer\nThe only glint of hope we hold growing dimmer and dimmer\nAnd so we bring it close enough to cling to it and shiver\nYou’re an innocent kid, but old enough to know this\nYou’re growing up so quick, I didn’t even notice\nAnd look at you — a future king, a truly beauteous thing\nTook you under mine, but now it’s time for you to use your wings\nMy finest student’s tutoring is due to finish soon\nAnd then it’s lunar, moving with the moon, a new beginning looms\nThere is a luminance in you no human can eclipse\nSo is it stupid to assume you’ll fill my shoe then if it fits?\nLike a glove, my love for you’s so huge, I better get a grip\nFeel the music as it hits, build the tune up, let it rip\nWhatever feats I have achieved\nWhatever deeds I’ve done\nWill never leave a legacy\nCompared to thee, my son\nEventually, even chilly winter will give in to spring\nInto summer rise and fall before revisiting\nWhat is a king to a god but kindling?\nAnd what’s a god to a son for whom his father would do anything?\nWhat godly gifts I’m given, hardly makes a difference\nI’m hardwired with this fatherly disposition, it’s my mission\nTo provide the kind of love that does not come with condition\nMy son, whatever sin’s committed, trust, it’s forgiven\nListen, you and I are riffing to a different rhythm\nRune rifted rock will outexist any scriptures written\nSee, even if I’m gone, you’ll have your father by your side\nKeeping your heart strong, from afar, look on with pride\nProvide a reason to go on, and take the hardship in your stride\nHowever far you want to ride, I’ll be right behind\nAnd though you might not need your father, your father needs his son\nAnd so I will march farther 'till the final deed is done\nWhatever feats I have achieved\nWhatever deeds I’ve done\nWill never leave a legacy\nCompared to thee, my son\nGood god, I’ve always thought myself a bad god\nBut perhaps I’m a good dad, I’ve got the dad bod\nBefore my lad, I was sad, savaged by the black dog\nJust trying to ignore it, gnawing at me like a Hamhock\nNo matter what path I trod, it followed the tracks I dropped\nBut now I’ve found what I lacked, I lost the last of what was\nPulling me down, it’s just my son and me now, and that’s your lot\nAnd if I have to, I’ll follow him down to Ragnarok\nWhatever feats I have achieved\nWhatever deeds I’ve done\nWill never leave a legacy\nCompared to thee, my son\nTogether we will weather each\nAnd every grief to come\nFor though I leave a legacy\nI’ll never leave my son\nWhatever feats I have achieved\nWhatever deeds I’ve done\nWill never leave a legacy\nCompared to thee, my son