Hey DAD

Intro

(piano, airy pads, slow breath)

Hey dad… (hey dad)

there’s a space you left that never left me…

Hook

There’s a space you left that never left me… (never left me)

It learned my name before the world met me…

It shaped how I love, how I ache…

It’s why I give too much when I break

There’s a space you left that raised my heart… (raised my heart)

Without your hands showing where edges are…

So I learned love through what I survived…

Not from your voice, but what stayed alive

Prologue

Time didn’t erase you, it just went quiet

like a room still closed but I feel inside it

I stopped asking “why” like I used to do

now it’s more what I became without you

and I became strong in ways I didn’t choose

not always soft, not always smooth

but I learned to survive what didn’t stay

and turn that absence into a way

Verse 1

I don’t build on what I missed

I build on what I had to fix

parts of me learned love without a guide

parts of me still go quiet inside

I had to learn what safety means

what it is when love doesn’t leave

what it feels like when someone stays

without me earning it painful ways

and I still feel that younger me

not lost… just differently

still holding questions with no reply

just soft understanding why

Pre-Chorus

I stopped trying to bring it back

or fill spaces time didn’t map

now I let it live in me

without it choosing what I believe

Chorus

There’s a space you left that I now carry… (I carry)

but it doesn’t define me…

I learned how to love without a map…

I learned to become my own steady hand

There’s a space you left, but I still grew… (still grew)

not from what I had… but what I went through…

and I don’t chase what never arrived…

I became the love I needed to survive

Verse 2

I used to think healing meant your name gone

but now I know it’s just the flame changed on

not burning for answers, not breaking for proof

just letting truth be truth

you’re part of the story, not the end line

not the wound I live in, just a mark in time (mark in time)

I hold both the ache and the peace

without letting either one own me

I still have days it softens me down

but I don’t disappear now

I sit with it like an old photograph (an old photograph)

and let it pass without pulling me back

Bridge

Hey dad… if you could sit with me one day (sit with me)

I wouldn’t ask why you went away

I’d just let silence finally speak (finally speak)

and tell you what your absence did to me (to me...)

not to blame you… just to be seen

by the man who was meant to raise me

Hey dad… I just needed you to know

Final Chorus

There’s a space you left that I transformed… (transformed)

into a woman who learned to stay warm…

not from what I had, but what I became…

I stopped waiting for love to name my name

There’s a space you left, but I’m still here… (still here)

with softer strength built through years…

I’m not lost in it, I’m not defined…

I’m your line continuing… refined

Outro

(piano fade, breathy)

There’s a space you left that never left me…

it just shaped me… (it shaped me)