Rise

I'm sorry I made you write this song
I'm sorry to be the one
I've never meant things to be this way
I'm sorry I chose to go.

I couldn't love no one
I couldn't love myself
That's why I wasn't there
To watch you grow a man

I don't know how to act right
I don't know what should I do
I don't know how to aid you
How to show you what a man should be

The time has come
The clean up has begun
The time has come
There's no place to run

Father, please release my hands
You were never worthy holding them anyway
You pretend to care about my ways
This ain't no time to make your amends

Tonight I'm leaving the worst in me
Tonight I am dying
So I can crawl away from the agonizing child
And rise a man