Story Behind The Song
I know someone who got pregnant and wanted the child to have better opportunities than what she could give him so she found a suitable home and agreed to adopt him out.
Song Description
verse 1/2 are from the childs point of view describing how they felt and the questions they had about not knowing who they were. The chorus can be applied to both perspectives about letting go af the past and moving on with the future and the here and now. V3 is the parent perspective and how they never got a chance to know the child. Bridge describes the importance of parental involvement
| Song Length |
5:47 |
Genre |
Rock - General, Rock - Classic |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Moving, Troubled |
Subject |
Pain, Regret |
| Similar Artists |
Bad Company, Creed |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1970 - 1979 |
| |
Lyrics
V1
Looking back, when I was a child
Saw so much but I didn't know
How the things that I didn't see in you, would turn on me
I needed to feel your love, How could you just let me go
V2
Years have passed, I'm older now, you're still not around
Now I see that I was just your liability
Still I try my best to find something to hold onto
Your hand-me-downs won't be my identity
Chorus
It's a mystery, a part of me that wonders just what might have been
Choices I made, good and bad I'm learning to live with what I did
I'm letting go of what I know and moving on with who I am
And passing on the best of me to you, my heirloom
V3
I found myself trying to escape years of loneliness
Comfort came when I gave myself to her
She didn't stay, I never knew the part of me that grew to you
If I could give one thing to you, my heirloom
Chorus
Bridge
The kitchen plates passed down, from generations before
The meals we ate without you there, what do you think I'll remember more
Chorus outro