Daddy You've Been On My Mind

Perhaps it's the colour

Of the sun cut flat

And covering the crossroads

I'm standing at

Or maybe it's the weather

Or something like that

But daddy

You've been on my mind



I don't mean trouble

Please don't put me down

Don't get upset

I am not pleading or saying

"I can't forget you"

I do not walk the floor

Bowed down and bent

But yet, daddy

You've been on my mind



Even though

My mind is hazy

And my thoughts

They might be narrow

Where you been

Don't bother me

Nor bring me down

In sorrow

It don't even matter

Who you're waking

With tomorrow

Daddy

You're just on my mind



I am not asking you

To say words

Like "yes" or "no"

Please understand me

I 'm not calling

For you to go

I'm just breathing

To myself

Pretending not

That I don't know

That daddy

You've been on my mind



When you wake up

In the morning

Baby

Look inside your mirror

Oh, you know

I won't be next to you

You know

I won't be near

I'd just be

Curious to know

If you can see

Yourself as clear

As someone

Who has had you

On her mind

As someone

Who has had you

On her mind