Karaoké After I'm Gone Michael Bennett

You don't call me anymore

You just say you're busy

I see you laughin' with the world but you don't make time for me

You walk past everything I gave like it was nothin' at all

I gave you my whole life

You can't give me one call

I'm still your father

Why do I feel erased

Yeah I had flaws

Yeah I got loud but I never once walked out

After I'm gone you'll feel this pain

Every ignored text

Every misname

When the wood hits dirt and the crowd goes home you'll finally understand what it means to be alone

You'll say you love me

You'll cry on cue

When love shows up why didn't you

I was here

I was breathin'

You just stopped believin'

When I was sick you didn't know

When I was weak you didn't show

You never asked if I was okay

You never missed me enough to stay

I waited for you

You never came

Now I'm just a fadin' name

I told myself you'd come around but hope gets quiet without a sound

After I'm gone you'll wish you tried

You'll replay nights you let me cry

You'll stand there shakin' hands in regret

Wishin' you could undo what you chose to forget

You'll say you love me

Maybe you did

But love isn't words

It's what you give

Jesus forgives

I hope He does because one day

He'll answer for us

And He'll ask you simple and plain

Why you never came

After I'm gone don't tell the crowd you were proud

Don't post my picture

Don't say my name if you couldn't show up while I felt the pain yeah

I was here, I was alive

You just thought

I had more time

After I'm gone you'll finally see

You didn't lose me

You abandoned me

Ooh ooh

My hands bled just for you

I worked until they shook

I missed my own dreams so you could chase the ones you took

I stood outside in the cold so you could sleep in warm light

I swallowed every fear just to keep you alright

Now I sit alone in a house I built for us

You pass my name in silence like I'm someone you don't trust

You left me here waitin'

You don't even try

Yeah I made mistakes

I wasn't easy to love but I never stopped showin' up

I never gave up

After I'm gone

When the wood hits dirt

When the sound of goodbye finally starts to hurt

You'll wish you came

You'll wish you stayed

You'll replay every call you never made

You'll say you love me

You'll swear you cared

But love shows up and you weren't there

I was here

I was alive

You just thought I had more time

When I fell down you never found me

When I needed you you weren't around me

I watched your life move on so fast while I was stuck inside the past

I kept the porch light on at night

I told myself you'd make it right

But hope gets tired and so do I

You left me behind and called it a lie

You didn't mean to hurt me

That's what you'd say

But not meanin' to still hurts this way

After I'm gone standin' by my grave you'll cry for the time you never gave it

You'll touch that stone

You'll say my name but it won't answer

It won't be the same

You'll beg for one more chance to call but silence won't answer at all

Jesus forgives

I tried it too but even He knows love has to move

One day you'll stand before Him alone and He'll ask you why you never came home

After I'm gone when the dirt falls down

When they lower me slow into the ground

That's when you'll feel what you denied

I was still here when you let me slide

I was your father

I needed you not your money

Just somethin' true

After I'm gone regret will stay longer than I ever did

Waitin' for you that way

Waitin' for you that way