Best Friend, Your Dad

Chorus

I know I wasn't there when you was small

I know I wasn't there when you learned to crawl

Still I'm here now

Yeah I'm here now

Mama's mama raised you right

Grandma held you every night

Still I'm here now

Yeah I'm here now

Verse 1

Got your letter in my hand

Read it twice

Eighteen months in a cell

Picturing your face

I was nineteen with a case

Too dumb to run

You were six months old

And I was gone before your first word

Pre-Chorus

Tell me can you hear me through the wall

Tell me does my voice even reach you at all

Tell me

Chorus

I know I wasn't there when you was small

I know I wasn't there when you learned to crawl

Still I'm here now

Yeah I'm here now

Mama's mama raised you right

Grandma held you every night

Still I'm here now

Yeah I'm here now

Verse 2

I ain't asking you to call me

I ain't asking you to forgive

Just know that I'm awake

When the whole block sleeps

I'm a work in progress

Half man half regret

But the half that's still standing

Is standing for you

Bridge

I am not my worst night

I am not that sentence

I am not that cell

I am trying

I am trying

Say it slow so you believe it

Chorus

I know I wasn't there when you was small

I know I wasn't there when you learned to crawl

Still I'm here now

Yeah I'm here now

Mama's mama raised you right

Grandma held you every night

Still I'm here now

Yeah I'm here now

Outro

(Here now)

(Here now)

Best friend

Your dad