he says "daddy loves me some
sometimes it takes him days
when he's back at her place
he says "can we move to Chicago?
she says he'll miss his dad
but he says he won't be sad
a blank expression on his face
and how could she have seen this
no matter what they'd said
she'd have kept and made his bed
for as long as she could stand
'cuz it wasn't in her hands
and three is twice the price
was the story just the same
when they sat me on the stairs
that my dad was soon to go
my brother can't remember
how he would get confused
about why we'd go to spend
every first and third weekend
with a man he didn't know
and then came the succession
'cuz the way they'd dupe my mom
I just wish I'd been a man
but I had such little hands
and still I played the price
Composição: Jesse Kates
