Daddy Atlas by Marika

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Daddy Atlas
by Marika

Last of your candle wax, end of your wick
Keeping us warm by burning both ends of it
Wrapped in your clothes, shoulders exposed
To the fall of our hope when the sun never rose

Trudging through the mud a little too long
Trying to love us a little too strong
Till the batteries died in your acid lungs
And your eyes burnt out like dying suns

Daddy Atlas, world for a backpack,
You don't have to shoulder the earth alone
Built me up, your heart for a hard-hat,
Give it up, I'm carrying you back home

Daddy Atlas, world for a backpack,
You don't have to shoulder the earth alone
Built me up, your heart for a hard-hat,
Give it up, I'm carrying you back home

Trudging the mud a little too long
Trying to love us a little too strong
Till the batteries died in your acid lungs
and your eyes burnt out like dying suns

Our family tree in an avalanche,
You talked like a trunk but broke like a branch
We climbed to the surface, but how could I know
You'd freeze for a season under the snow?

I've tried being perfect, I've been known to disappoint,
planting lies like buried dynamite until you hit the point where
You stepped on every mine I used to build your pedestal
As you looked for fallen petals that had wilted off my rose

I'm the only kind of baggage that will carry on without you, even Jesus dropped his cross after all that he had been through, i may count it all as loss but i still don't want to lose you, you're my daddy and that 's all you need to be for me to love you.

Daddy Atlas, world for a backpack,
You don't have to shoulder the earth alone
Built me up, your heart for a hard-hat,
Give it up, I'm carrying you back home