Hurt Feelings

My dad is almost home, I can't tell time yet, but I know Because the air becomes electric, and my mother cleans the stove He'll walk in through the door and both my eyes will find the floor And I will search my brain to find something I might get yelled at for He'll come in with a frown and tell me, "Sit your ass right down" Or he might get his kicks from joking that he's just playin' around And in a few years I will leave, but I'll perpetually believe That any man who says he loves me is hidin' somethin' up his sleeve Wash me in the water You can cut off all of my hair And I'll be changin' like the weather But I'll never be like him The other girls date older guys and wear their T-shirts late at night But everything I own that's oversize belongs to me, it's mine And I don't have souvenirs of all the earliest of years You know my father isn't dead, but it don't feel like he's still here It's strange now that he's grey and getting older by the day And my eyes tell me that he's harmless despite what my heart has to say So maybe just forget, maybe move on don't regret Or maybe this is just another trick that hasn't happened yet Wash me in the water You can cut off all of my hair And I'll be changin' like the weather But I'll never be like him 'Cause blood is thick but water is forever And I'm stiffer than a board, lighter than a feather And that girl will be a problem only if you let her And I left her back home, but I cannot forget her I thought that it was my fault and now sometimes I still do You didn't chase me through the park, so now I'm, chasin' after you But I can't keep up the illusion or confirm your point of view Oh, I can't bear to fake a smile when you walk into the room 'Cause blood is thick but water is forever And I'm stiffer than a board, lighter than a feather And that girl will be a problem only if you let her And I left her back home, but I cannot forget her Wash me in the water You can cut off all of my hair And I'll be changin' like the weather But I'll never be like him 'Cause blood is thick but water is forever And I'm stiffer than a board, lighter than a feather And that girl will be a problem only if you let her And I left her back home, but I cannot forget her