There's photos on the wall
Without them I wouldn't remember you at all
Daddy says I loved your hair
The way it smelled like summer
He tells me you're a star
I guess that means you're far away
But sometimes he still calls your name
Before I learned to talk
We used to lay together by the fire
A trace of woodsmoke on my clothes
Still keeps me in your arms
Daddy had a ring
He dropped it in the ocean
He cried and didn't speak for days
I've never been so lonely
I gave him one of mine
Shiny tiny plastic thing
He smiled as if he'd come back home
But he put it in a pocket
Of a coat he never wore
And just the other day
He took it to the thrift store
Because tomorrow we'll be moving
To our new town
By the sea
And I haven't been there yet
But I hope we'll be
Swimming
'Cos soon it will be summer
And my hair is getting longer
And he never lets me cut it
But I'm going to when I'm older
And there'll be photos on the wall
Of you and me when I was small
And I'll show them to my new friends
To remember it all