Father's Child ft. Malelah Poet Lyrics

When I was younger, in the dead of the night

I would wake up in tears, sometimes cry out in fear

Of all I didn't know, all the troubles and wars

The darkness weighing on my heart

And He'd say, Son I love you

I'd set nothing above you

Through every situation I'll be right there beside you

Now the joy of my heart and the peace in my soul's because

I am my father's child

And He loves me, He'll never forsake me and I

Am in love with the joy that that brings

And I'll find my peace and rest in knowing I…..

I am my Father's Chiiiiiiiiiiiiild

I am my father's child

Uuuuuu oooooo ooooooo

Dear Papa

Don't think I haven't noticed

How you tuck us in and then stay up late to think

And to sometimes cry

I am awake on all those nights

I am a baby no more in whose eyes the world is a eutopia

For those days are long gone

It is all black and white now

Those times you are so hungry but you insist on fixing more of your rations onto our plates

How do you survive? Because the last time I checked, you are still a loader

Weighing heavy bags of cement on your weather beaten shoulders

Is that why your bad cough never goes away?

Papa, I'm worried.

I saw your handkerchief yesterday, it was bloody.

Can't you spare some cash for you this time and visit the dispensary?

All the same, Papa.

I want you to know that you are my hero.

For the number of times you've had to fake joy so I couldn't know sadness

For how hard you work so that I may never lack

Every night that you were beaten and tired but you read me bedtime tales and rocked me to sleep

You. Are. Phenomenal.

And He loves me, He'll never forsake me and I

Am in love with the joy that that brings

And I'll find my peace and rest in knowing I…..

I am my Father's Chiiiiiiiiiiiiild

I am my father's child

Uuuuuu oooooo ooooooo

For every day, and everything

That you grace my life with, I love you

For every moment, and every strength

That I draw from you, I love you

Oh I looove you.