(Gary Burr)      I woke up cryin' late at night when I was very young   I had dreamed my father had passed away and gone   My world revolved around him, I couldn't lie there anymore   So I made my way down the mirrored hall and tapped upon his door.      And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid!   How will I go on with you gone that way?   Don't wanna cry anymore so may I stay with you?"   He said, "That's my job, that's what I do   Everything I do is because of you, to keep you safe with me   That's my job, you see."      Later we barely got along, this teenage boy and he   Most of the fights it seems were over different dreams we each held for me   He wanted knowledge and learning, I wanted to fly out west   Said, "I could make it out there, if I just had the fare   I got half, will you loan me the rest?"      And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid   Theres no guarentee in the plans I've made   And if I should fail who will pay my way back home?"   And he said, "That's my job, that's what I do   Ev'rything I do is because of you to keep you safe with me   That's my job, you see."      Every person carves his spot and fills the hole with life   And I pray someday I might light as bright as he.      Woke up early one bright fall day to read the tragic news   After all my travels, I settled down within a mile or two   I make my livin' with words and rhymes and all the tragedy   Should go into my head and out instead as bits of poetry.      But I say, "Daddy I'm so afraid   How will I go on with you gone this way   How can I come up with a song to say, "I love you."   "That's my job, that's what I do   Ev'rything I do is because of you to keep you safe with me   That's my job, you see."      "Ev'rything I do is because of you to keep you safe with me..."