Are you there?
Father I've trailed your ghost for days
In the dark I've dealt with angels
So they'll take this grief away
Black wings bind me, show me how the sun
Receding from the tree-line makes no vows
To anyone

Father, father, father
I'm farther, farther, farther
From the future that I'm after
The future where I'm better
So teach me, teach me, teach me
To make that future reach me
To move along but not to stir
The dust that settles in my wake

He said,
I"ll be there to meet you at the bend.
In the road you think you travel all alone
You're not alone
Time is not kind
Time will never mend
You're just choking on the pain
You think you own

Tell me I can go on and I can say goodbye

Father, father, father
I'm farther, farther, farther
From the future that I'm after
The future where I'm better
So teach me, teach me, teach me
To make that future reach me
To move along but not to stir
The dust that settles in my wake

You promised that you'd say
Promised that you'd say goodbye

Tell me I can go on and I can say goodbye

I"ll be there to meet you at the bend.
In the road you think you travel all alone
You're not alone
Don't mistake our parting for the end
And don't let the mistakes you've made define you
Don't let the mistakes you'll make define you

Promise that you'll say, promise that you'll say goodbye