Ungrateful One

歌詞

When my father built a fire, he’d pour on gasoline every field he planted grew up tall and green There were feasts upon the table, both night and day But not a word of thanks did my father ever say O regret he’d cry out to not have walked away Thirty years ago upon his wedding day The freedom we had robbed him, he never tried to hide And the youth upon my cheeks was a dagger to his pride He called me ungrateful one, ungrateful one Look at what you’ve done boy, see what you have done I was the last of seven kids, and a stranger from the start It seems the more I knew, the more we grew apart But who can understand the shame of just a child As my father reared and thundered, my silence drove him wild O regret he’d cry out, for this misery I slave Who among you now will lay flowers on my grave But I was just a babe, the last and only hope And he could see I was gone as fast as I could go O regret the old man cried, Lord hear me call A curse upon this life and a curse upon these walls That old house packed with guilt, set fire and left to burn To those hills of my youth, I will never more return