Let's imagine for a moment that the hurt never happened

And that I grew up with a Mum and Dad

You know like old-fashioned and under one roof were my parents

And they along fine

Instead of timing our visits to Dad on Sunday

It's fine cause knowing that I'd see him once a week would bring me a smile

Now Let's imagine that he showed up on that Sunday he didn't

And that I wasn't nine and wondering why Dad wouldn't visit

I was waiting outside cause dad said we could see him

But never showed up

He said he forgot what a pity party

And from then on he wanted less of us till he vanished

He had his two sons, but wanted nothing of them Imagine

I was so young and I couldn't get why Dad didn't want us

Now tell me what kind of a man can just abandon his children?

Imagine if he didn't and we had a dad that would listen

And teach us how to shave and speak to girls and play every evening

But as I get older I see that it was all wishful thinking

Now let's imagine that Mum thought that I wasn't so crazy

And that she had the need to call the cops on me for complaining

I had these tests done to check if I was normal or fading

I was told that I was normal but Mum refused to say it

I grew up in a way that I would always be the outcast

Told that I would fail in whatever I threw my mind at

These thoughts are still around and they will haunt me when the lights out And always try to prove myself to show that I'm the nice guy

She insisted that I was mental

She told me that I was broken

No fixing could ever help me

She called me names so disgusting

I'm still so surprised I didn't do something much worse than clenching my fists and some petty shouting

You'd beat us if we were loud and you'd beat us if we were quiet

There's no escaping the life that I hated and wanted out of

Accepting my own demise

Till I grew a voice of my own and I started pointing them out

And you hated that even more and eventually cutting us out

All I could ever do is only really imagine

Have a story to tell and a past I can capture

And I won't stop

It's my life

I know you don't like it

But I'm so sick of hiding behind all the pain that I'm masking

All I could ever do is only really imagine

Have a story to tell and a past I can capture

And I won't stop

It's my life

I know you don't like it

But I'm so sick of hiding behind all the pain that I'm masking