I guess I just don't understand,
So please explain to me,
How you could go away and never return?
I miss you so much, can't you see?

My mind only contains a few memories,
The ones I wish we could repeat.
Like when you would take me to "Grandma's,"
Those days can't be beat.

Now I sit and think,
Of how it would be,
If only you
Would have returned to me.

I longed to see you,
Walk through the door.
But waiting for a dream to come true,
Soon became a bore.

Sometimes I'll get the urge
To pick up the phone,
But then I hang up
Once I hear the dial tone.

I think of other children
That you may have had,
Would you desert them, too?
Or would you actually be their dad?

There's a lot that you missed,
I've been through so much.
But sometimes I still long
For your comforting touch.

The touch that a daddy has,
To let his little girl know,
That he loves her,
And that his love will always grow.

There wasn't much I didn't get,
Almost everything I wanted, I had.
But the one thing I'd dreamed of,
Was to have a dad.

Seeing the other little girls,
Playing at the park,
Riding on their daddies' shoulders,
Or being comforted in the dark.

A penny in a wishing well,
Wishing upon a shooting star,
Blowing out a cake's candles,
Hasn't worked so far.