Don’t you ever ask them why.
If they told you you would cry.
So just look at them and sigh,
And know they love you.
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Archive for the ‘Songs for Lili’ Category
Teach Your Children
Posted in Songs for Lili on January 27, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Indian Summer
Posted in Songs for Lili on January 10, 2022| Leave a Comment »
On the wind
Summer’s leaving
It found me grieving
Living on my own thinking of you
Thinking of you
In the sand
By Rainbow River
My love did shiver till the fire and I warmed her again
Want you again
And I need you all through the night
Ah hold back the Winter Indian Summer
I’m not sure if I can take the snow
In mid December I can’t help but wonder
How will I ever last till the coldness goes
Baby I miss you all through the day
Ah hold back the Winter Indian Summer
I’m not sure if I can take the snow
In mid December I can’t help but wonder
How will I ever last till the coldness goes
Yesterme Yesteryou Yesterday
Posted in Songs for Lili on December 30, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Dear Lili,
After the separation, I still believed that somehow the bond we had forged would remain strong, despite “the forces” that conspired against us. I so looked forward to the weekends we shared together, even though it broke my heart every time I had to drop you off and say good-bye. We were close, as a father and daughter should be, and I truly believed that I could watch you grow up and that I could continue to be a good dad to you. I was wrong in that dream, of course, and little by little, I watched you slip away from me. Our visits became less and less frequent, until eventually they ended altogether. Somebody asked me today what I would have done differently. What more could I have done, though, than I had? The odds were stacked against us. It does now seem like a cruel and foolish game we used to play indeed.
Love always,
Your Dad ❤
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas, My Daughter
Posted in Songs for Lili on December 27, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Dear Lili,
Sometimes I just don’t know what to say anymore. I don’t know the right words to bring us together again. Maybe there are none. But I’ll never give up on you. Someday, when you are a parent, you’ll understand how I feel.
You are always in my heart. Now and forever.
Love,
Your Dad ❤
Gabriels’ Oboe
Posted in For My Princess Lili, Songs for Lili on July 25, 2021| Leave a Comment »
I don’t know why exactly, but this song reminds me of you and the tender moments we shared when you were young.
You are always in my heart,
Dad
Happy Birthday again, Lili
Posted in For My Princess Lili, Songs for Lili on June 29, 2021| Leave a Comment »
These birthdays are always bittersweet for me. Memories of the happy times we spent together, and the sadness that we have been separated for so long through decisions beyond our powers.
From the moment you were born, I lost my heart to you.
I did my best to care for you. You were everything to me, my purpose in life.
You are now and will always be, forever in my heart.
Love always,
Dad ❤
Fare you well, fare you well I love you more than words can tell
Posted in Songs for Lili on October 8, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Brokedown Palace (Grateful Dead)
Fare you well my honey
Fare you well my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Have flown except you alone
Going to leave this broke-down palace
On my hands and my knees I will roll, roll, roll
Make myself a bed by the waterside
In my time, in my time, I will roll, roll, roll
In a bed, in a bed
By the waterside I will lay my head
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul
River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
All the way back back home
It’s a far gone lullaby
Sung many years ago
Mama, mama, many worlds I’ve come
Since I first left home
Going home, going home
By the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul
Going to plant a weeping willow
On the banks green edge it will grow, grow, grow
Sing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll
Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul
Kid
Posted in For My Princess Lili, Songs for Lili on June 26, 2019| Leave a Comment »
My only kid.
Miss you every day of my life, Lili.
You are always in my heart.
Love,
Daddy ❤
Return to Sender
Posted in For My Princess Lili, Songs for Lili on April 28, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Dear Lili,
After your mother and I split up, I used to see you on the weekends — until that ended for reasons you will someday understand. I remember dropping you off at Makuhari Station when the weekend was over and sitting on the platform seat with tears in my eyes waiting for the Sobu Line back home, wondering when, or rather if, I’d be able to see you again.
The very last time I saw you was in that very station in January 2005 when I was allowed to see your briefly to tell you that your grandmother had died. The very last image I have of you is you walking away with your mother and your other grandmother out of the station in this exact place.
I never did see you again after that except for a couple of pictures I received in 2010, some nine years ago now. I stayed far way from your home in Makuhari ever since, for reasons, again, you may come to understand one day. I will only say our separation was not my choice.
I would sometimes pass by Makuhari Station on the Narita Express on the way to the airport. The train travels at a very fast speed past the station, but I nevertheless always strained to look out the window on the remotest of chances that I might catch of glimpse of my only daughter. I never did, of course, but I repeated that ritual every time I passed by even so.
As letters and packages sent to you by your cousins came back “Return to Sender: Address Unknown”, I since learned by checking your old address on Google Street View that the house you used to live in doesn’t exist anymore, and that the area looks completely different. I recalled at that moment that your grandfather had told me that they were eventually going to have to move, that the area was going to be bought out by the government through eminent domain to build a new roadway. I don’t know when that happened, exactly, but it looks to have been done some time ago.
I used to think that at least I knew where you lived, and that I could contact you in case of an emergency or serious situation, as had indeed happened to me recently. But now I’m forced to admit that I know absolutely nothing about you — even your address. Nothing about you, my only child.
So I keep making these blog posts hoping that one day you will find me if you need me, as I no longer can find you through conventional means.
Love always,
Your Dad ❤
I Can’t Help Falling in Love with You
Posted in For My Princess Lili, Songs for Lili on April 14, 2019| Leave a Comment »
How I felt the first time I saw your face, Lili. This made me think of you because this is how old you were the last time I saw you.
Love,
Daddy
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