He Loves Me - Conscience

Momma calls it tough love

I call it not enough

Told me, «Toughen up»

But I’ve been beaten, I’ve been shoved

I just need a crutch

Say, «He just like that, bubby, he ain’t that in touch

With all that lovey-dove stuff»

But I just want a hug

Or just a conversation once

Is that too much

For me to ask a father of?

I know I got you, momma, but I ask God above

Why He put another dad in my life if I can only go to mom

'Cause he don’t like to talk, he don’t like to play

If I ask if we could throw the ball, «No, not today»

Every day

And I still go to ask in hopes the answer might change

But every single time it hasn’t, I can’t help but overthink

Maybe dad isn’t too fond of me

Compared the bond to mom and me

And I see someone by my side and someone who don’t wanna be

But maybe he’s just tired, or maybe he’s just tired of me

I seen him with my brother, wish he spared some time for me

So I just started praying to the father up above me

Maybe we could talk, laugh it up up in the front seat

Know this might be much, maybe one day he could hug me

Maybe I could hear him once tell me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Just once

Tell me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Just once

But momma say she been through it, too

Her daddy was a cold-hearted man sippin' the booze

He ain’t the type to fit a suit, from his head to his shoes

The man was leathered up and never thought twice to leather his wife,

mother of two

All he did was work and drink, nothing sat in between

With every sip, his heart shrunk, and momma’s would sink

She had to fend for herself, eventually had me

And with all that going on, she grew up in a blink

Her daddy’s old now, she taking care of him

He grew sick, momma made sure she was there for him

She helped him eat, shower, sleep, despite his narrative

Found out it was cancer, and sadly, there he went

She cried and cried like it was unseen

In just telling me this, she had to hug me

But days before he died, when I had helped him upheave

For the very first time pulled me close, and he told me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Just once

Tell me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Just once

Tell me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Tell me that he loves me

Just once