http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJEP5sWuDi8forgive the shitty video itself
This song reminds me of my father and how much of a hypocrite I am when it comes to him.
My father was a former drug addict who emotional abused my mom and I. It wasn't like the stuff you would see on TV but everything he would say to me would be some sort of back handed insult that would bring me down. My parents constantly argued and sometimes brought me into the middle of it to try and get me to take a side, which spiraled me into a depression that lead me to cut myself and eventually try and commit suicide. I always figured if I was out of the equation, they could try again and probably have a kid who wasn't gay and a fuck up (it took me a long time to not hate myself for being gay).
After the divorce, I missed my father because I wanted to have a father figure in my life. When I was little, he was replaced with Mufasa because of how much I wanted a relationship with my father and I was jealous of how wonderful he was. I still want the love and approval of my father because he is my father and I love him but, I continually push him away and avoid him because I'm still hurt by the past and how rocky my family was.
I still haven't come out of the closet to my father because I fear I'm going to lose him again. I want him to be around for my children and for all the events in the future but, I don't know how long he has left. He was diagnosed with some form of diabetes (I don't know if it's type 1 or 2, I've mentally shut down that fact because I'm still somewhat in denial of the fact) and he has severe depression that almost killed him when I was six. He told me I might have to be the man of the house and that day still haunts me.
He would always sing that song in the car when it would come on and I would emotionally shut down because of the lyrics. Because I felt like he was never there. I'm still working on building the bridges to him again. I'll always love him and I just want to have a father to tell me how to be a father, even though he wasn't the perfect one when I was younger he was still the man I looked up too.