[I] hope you remember me,
I was your daddy once
Wearing a sailor cap
and dirty nails
[To] you I'm just a picture on
your mother's mantelpiece
[Who] chose to fight the good fight in time to fail
Into battle [and]
d-in your shadow
Your daddy loves you still, yes I do
I never thought it'd be so hard
to see you grow so fast
[And] turn into the man
I used to be
But I hope you have more sense than I, in matters
such a--s these
Medals don't mean a shit
when a family is lost at sea, yeah
Into battle d-in your shadow
Your daddy loves you still, yes he does, yes he does
Into battle d-in your shadow
Your daddy loves you still, yes he does, yeah, yes he does
I save every moment
I've reached-out and almost
touched you
But they a-all fade away,
must be a bad memory
[instrumental]
Into battle d-in your shadow
Your daddy loves you still, yes he does, yes he does
Into battle d-in your shadow
Your daddy loves you still, yes he does, yeah, yes he does,
yes he do-o-o-o-oes
