Crumbled

When a father walks out of your child's life

I never truly believed we’d every really last
And I can’t take back every wrong thing that I’ve done in the past
Don’t think that I want to; I don’t have a single regret
But I still trace my hands over the remnants of your silhouette

I couldn’t believe what I was hearing when I got that call
I felt my heart break down the center and I watched the phone fall
My body crumbled out of my own control
And I knew at that moment my world would never be whole

I tried my hardest to move on and put it all behind me
I knew that I had to be stronger than I ever would be
For our daughter, so she wouldn’t see me cry
And she wouldn’t realize that I just wanted to die

And it worked, we both moved on without you
Put in the past what you put us through
And she’s still my little soldier, she fought her war
She doesn’t need your sympathy anymore

You walked out on her life and she knows what you did
And don’t you ever tell me that she’s only a kid
That she doesn’t know what happened, that we can make it right
She knows, she’s a solider, and you’ve already lost that fight