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Letter To James

by PatchyDenseFog

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There are good parents, and there are not so good parents. Sometimes you have to write a letter...

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'99 was the year that I said I was done,
Decided once and for all that you wadn't good folk to me.
Known a lot of good men, decided you wadn't one,
Wadn't that big a deal 'cause you weren't that close to me, no...

So I just disappear like I was smoke in the Sun,
They it's not how a father and child are supposed to be, no...

Here I am, doing fine, so maybe this thing was the best for me,
I never spent any time, feeling I was missing the rest of me, but,
The way that we used to laugh,
A boy could get used to that.
I don't need your excuses Dad,
I just wonder, yeah

And sometimes I wonder.


The Grandbabies are awesome, the boy's big and strong,
Just watching him blossom has really been something for me.
Baby girl is so gorgeous, her legs are so long,
The fact you choose to miss is ain't nothing but dumb to me.
I'll let you do what you do, I'm onna leave you alone,
Being the father you wouldn't ain't nothing but fun to mean, yeah...

Here I am, doing fine, so maybe this thing was the best for me,
I never spent any time, feeling I was missing the rest of me, but,
The way that we used to laugh,
A boy could get used to that.
I don't need no excuses Dad,
I just wonder, yeah

Sometimes...and sometimes I wonder.

Oh, broken promises, disappointment and let-downs,
Oh, my mama said, that was all that you'd be, to me.
After all of those years she was saying, I get now,
But I still wanna thank ya, you taught me what not to be, yeah!

(Yeah)

'99 was the year that I said I was done,
Decided once and for all that you wadn't good folk to me.
Known a lot of good men, decided you wadn't one,
Wadn't that big a deal 'cause you weren't that close to me, no...

The way that we used to laugh,
A boy could get used to that.
I don't need no excuses Dad,
I just wonder, yeah

The way that we used to laugh,
A boy could get used to that.
I don't need no excuses Dad,
I just wonder, yeah

Sometimes, yeah, and sometimes I wonder.

And sometimes I wonder, yeah...

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released June 23, 2021
Lyrics and Vocals by Julius Henderson
Music by Dan Swain
Produced by PatchyDenseFog

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