Never Know Lyrics

Sometimes when I'm lying here giving these tired eyes a rest

I find myself drifting off somewhere to a place that's just like this

Except you are there, sitting in a chair

Watching cartoons on TV

And in this scene I ain't ever dreamed if you're a boy or you're a girl

The only thing that I can tell for sure is that you are my whole world

But then I wake up, and my body's stuck

And it seemed so real to me

We never had the chance to meet, I couldn't look you in the eye

And tell you all the useful things that I'd picked up in my life

And days look so much different now than they did that long ago

But I guess that's just the way it sometimes goes

And that's just another thing you'll never know

Years went past and your mom and me we stopped seeing eye to eye

And when she left you know it took a breath for me to see to the other side

I guess we lost our way, it couldn't be the same

After all that we went through

And blame ain't got no part in this, it just wasn't meant to be

At times I can't help wondering where we all would be

If you were born and we brought you home

To be a family

Would you lay right down beside me on the couch the way I did

To watch a movie with my old man the way I did when I was a kid

Would you be so shy that your head hung low wherever you would go

Or would you try to be the star of every show

That's just another thing we'll never know

I never got to say hello, but then I never said goodbye

I just kept going on with life, I didn't take the time to cry

I thought being strong meant not letting on

That it broke my heart in two

Truth be told it took till now for me to find the words to say

To let you know that you left a hole on the day you went away

So I'll say it here, and I'll shed my tears

In memory of you

I wrote this song to say that you still come up in my mind

Even though I tried to keep my stride and to leave that day behind

I'm the dad you'll never have but I won't ever let you go

And I hope somehow you know I love you so

But that's just another thing I'll never know