Product Description
A slow, heartbreaking ballad sung by a son who is losing his father to dementia.
This is the original songbook key. The song is also available in a slightly higher key (starting key: D-major), Search for product code S0.629125 There is a YouTube video available on the product page for the D-major version.
Lyrics:
Everythings going to be all right. It will - youll see,
Thats what a father says to a son.
But the worlds turned around, and now Im the one
To tell you the words, even though I know theyre not true.
And still I say them. What else can I do?
Everythings going to be all right. That is my prayer.
Times running backwards. A childs in your chair.
But hes wearing your face, your silvery hair.
Trembling with rage at the things he no longer can do.
Searching for words. Once so many. Now so few.
How can the world just keep on turning?
The sun up above seems so unconcerned, as if he didnt know.
How can I escape this last lesson Im learning from you?
I do not want to learn how to let go.
Papa please dont make me learn
How to let go.
Everythings going to be all right. It has to be.
Will you do like your father, and decide when its time to go?
Or fight it to the very end, resisting the undertow?
Or just sit in your rocking chair, til you dont even know
Who I am. Who you are. Who we were.
Everythings going to be all right. In the end.
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