Standard (EADGBE)

__Verse__

Papa had a wife and kids, he kept them on a leash

and he bid them all to do his every deed.

When he was a kid he was treated just the same

so he hid his feelings from his family.

__Pre-Chorus__

Lost as an island out at sea,

resistant to the gentle waves of empathy, yeah!

__Chorus__

Papa and his family always on parade

Tearing through the turnstiles, a weekender's charade.

But time will tell

as their world crumbles to hell.

What they created...

...was a family story no one will tell

It's a photo album too terrible

But the pride and the pallor continue to swell

And the matron silently prays.

__Pre-Verse__

__Verse__

Junior resented the tradition they upheld

and it ate him up inside most every day

Silence was golden and they kept him to his word

So bewildered when he finally ran away

__Pre-Chorus__

Oh, obligations never cease

Oblivious of the ways to give his soul some peace, yeah!

__Chorus__

Papa and his family always on parade

Passing through the turnstiles, a weekender's charade.

But time will tell

as their world crumbles to hell.

What they created...

...was a family story no one will tell

It's a photo album too terrible

But the pride and the pallor continue to swell

as the matron silently prays.

__Bridge__

"Get me out of here, someone's got to save the day."

The children are reminded to do it for their daddy's sake

And happiness is ever so far, far away

__solo__

__Pre-Chorus__

Yeah, lost as an island out at sea

Oblivious to the gentle waves of empathy, yeah!

__Final Chorus__ (one addional line!)

Papa and his family always on parade

Tearing through the turnstiles, a weekender's charade

It's just a sick calamity that fatherhood made,

but time will tell, as their world crumbles to hell.

What they created...

was a family story no one will tell

It's a photo album too terrible

But the pride and the pallor continue to swell

as the matron silently prays...

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V.