I sleep alone
I cry alone
I don't want to die alone
Please come home soon
Come home soon

I watch him leave
Tears stinging my eyes
I watch him go
I say good bye

My heart aches
My eyes cry
I watch him go
I say good bye

We drive home
Silent and still
I look out the window
And stare at the runway
From where the plane took off
To take him away

My father was a Navy Man
Gone at sea when I was born
Then again when I was two
Then again when I was four
And so many more times as I got older
But no matter how many times he went away,
The pain stayed the same.

You'd never believe the nightmares,
You'll never know the pain

I sleep alone
I cry alone
I don't want to die alone
Please come home soon
Come home soon'

I've waken up in tears
Calling out for you
I've cried a hundred tears in worry and in pain
And somehow you must've known
Somehow you must've heard

Because you always came home
Home again, safe and sound
But only to leave again
After what seemed like just a minute
But must've been years

I push the memories from my mind
As Mom and I sit down
For another almost-silent meal

Somehow I've learned to laugh again
Sometimes.
But sometimes I'm still consumed by the sadness, the pain
Sometimes I wished I was numb
Numb to everything

But then something makes me smile
Something makes me laugh
And I decide that maybe
Just maybe I can go on
Maybe I can survive

I can.
I will.
I love you.

A warm welcome
A how do you do
Words of kindness
And comfort too

A perfect little unit
So happy all in place
Old photographs
Show each loving face

Family dinners
Discussions of your day
Saying you need not be thinner
Making that frown go away

Before going to bed
A goodnight is always said
A family we'll be
A family, you'll see