Ikonoklast - Father (Lyrics)

Lyrics:
thanks for the inspiration, father
i can always count on you for bringing me down
you always told me i'd never be anything
as long as i lived my life this way
being who i am - exactly what you say you used to be
but you never were - you were just a lie then, too
just another yuppie - burn-out wanna-be hippie
who's always tried to tell me - what i should be and do
well, i'm sick of all your bullshit, father
'cuz this is who i am
if you can't love a child for the way it is
how can you call yourself a dad?
thanks for giving me support, father
although you've never given me any
you always said i'd never succeed in anything
but i wrote this fucking song, didn't i?
living out my life - the way that i want to
is it such a crime - to be fucking human?
not a servant robot - to support a system
that i refuse to agree with - doesn't that count for anything?
sorry i'm not good enough, father
sorry i'm an ignorant piece of shit
but if you got your mind off drugs and money
than maybe you wouldn't be plagued with such blind incompetence
if i died tomorrow, would you even care?
i'm not the only one who sees this
thanks for giving me life, father
a life of insults, fear, and rejection
i know that you fed me and raised me through childhood
but you wasted your time, 'cuz i should have been aborted
but now i'm a man - or at least a broken shell of one
and though through your eyes - i know that i'm far less
i know that i'm not perfect - nobody is
but it takes more than dirt - to grow a healthy tree
sometimes i feel your eyes, father
scolding at the fact that i am your child
admonished and rejected, stepped on and shot down
who'd believe that a man of your status would lie?

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