Stranded Verse:
A Child Was BORN In VAIN/ Only For Her Mother To Die While She Was ON The WAY/ She CAME OUT// FACE DOWN// She Never SAW Her FACE/ She Aged Taking The BLAME/ For Why Her Father Was ABSORBED By PAIN/ Because She Was Ignorant To What Went ON In His BRAIN/ He Could Tell Her How He Was TORN Two Different WAYS/ By The JOY And The PAIN/ Joy For Her, PAIN/ For The Woman FROM Which She CAME/ But She Knew He Loved Her So She Would Never BELIEVE What He'd SAY/ So He Let Things Just BE AS They MAY/ It Wasn't Something That NEEDED To CHANGE/ Despite Their Despair The Love BETWEEN Them REMAINED/ He's Been On A Dark Journey Since That DAY/ Seeing Her In That COFFIN Sparked An Eternal FLAME/ He Thought Of Her OFTEN And Drifted AWAY/ The Harder He Focused, The Further He STRAYED/ He Left The Planet, But Visited On A Regular BASE/ To Mourn At Her GRAVE/ In Silence For There Were No Amount Of Words He Could SAY/ To Soothe His Soul Or To EXPLAIN/ How He Felt Borderline To INSANE/ He Read Her Book, But Never Got To The Last PAGE/ And He Was Far More Than A Chapter AWAY/ The Pages Abandoned When She Passed AWAY/ There Was So Much He Had To SAY/ But He Always Bit His Tongue Now He'll Never Get Rid Of The AFTERTASTE/ Never Will The Emptiness EVAPORATE/ His Heart Broken Never To HEAL/ It Was Only Held Together By His Daughter's WILL...// Both WOMEN/ Make Him Feel The Same, But It's DIFFERENT/ Because His Daughters A Constant Reminder Of What He's MISSING/ Looking At Her Hurt Just As MUCH AS It DIDN'T/ An Unknown Force DOUBLED His VISION/ It Was Blurred, But He Saw Her And Her MOTHER IN IT/ He Would Close His Eyes To SHUT OUT The IMAGE/ But That Only Made It Much More VIVID/
SG Verse:
It Was In A LOCKET He Kept As A MEMENTO/ Put It In The Front POCKET Of An OLD RENTAL/ Under His VEST// Lay His Naked STRESS// He Would ROCK IT As A STENCIL/ Plus It Was A Big EVENT TOO/ Flying Economy Class, CONTINENTAL/ About To Land, Filling Out The Custom Card With A SHORTENED PENCIL/ He Had Never Spoken To Her Before Even Though He Had ALWAYS MEANT TO/ Not Sure Of What Was About To ENSUE/ He Held Tightly To The Invitation That Came OUT Of The BLUE/ Wrapped In A RIBBON// GLITTERED// And Then POWDERED With GLUE/ He Planned To Take Her Out And AROUND To The ZOO/ Thought He Could Make It All Up To Her, But Then He DOUBTED It TOO/ He Had Been Granted The GIFT Of MERCY/ Never Thought He'd Again See The FACE Of COMPASSION// But On This TRIP To JERSEY/ MAYBE It COULD HAPPEN// Work Was A MAJOR DISTRACTION// So He QUIT DISPERSEDLY/ Whatever It TAKES, PERHAPS THEN// She'd Become The Only Light LEFT In His LIFE/ Since The SPLIT From His WIFE/ Trying To Sleep Through The STRESS In The NIGHT/ He Ducked Out Before Her DUE DATE// Thought It Was TOO LATE// But Now He Finds Himself Standing Outside Their NEW PLACE/
Lotus Verse:
And Ever Since His First BIRTHDAY/ He Never Seen His Father Who Always WORK LATE/ Come Home Licking The PLATE/ Then Off To BED/ Moms Got No Attention, Sick Of His Shit And LEFT/ Not That She FELT// He Wasn't A Good PROVIDER/ It Was More About How He Was A Selfish LIAR/ His BELT DEALT FIRE/ After A Few Drinks Of WHISKEY/ Not LUCID// Becomes ABUSIVE// And TIPSY/ They MADE An ESCAPE At A LATER DATE, SPLIT/ Young Boy Says To His Mother "I HATE THIS/ I Hate You! Why Did You Take Me From DADDY?"/ "Because He Sleeps On A Bench Seat In The Back Of The CADDY"/ Years Had Passed, Moms Thinks He'd FORGOTTEN/ One Night Pretends To Sleep, Playing POSSUM/ Contempt For His Mother, He Seemed To BLAME HER/ Outside Pop's Window, Two Kids And A STRANGE GIRL/