Tell Me - Michael Sarver

I drove that stretch of highway

Down to Jasper

Left everything I had searching for answers

The only thing I really knew

Is he left home when I was two

And we just carried on

A few miles down the road

It started to sink in

Looked in the rearview mirror

Said what are you thinking

What if he lets you down

Doesn't care that he was never around

All the years that he'd been gone

Had a longing in my heart

For something I had never felt

Had to look him in the eye

And tell him you put us through hell

You put us through hell

Tell me what could have been better

Than your own son

How could you walk away forever

Just as my life had begun

What happened in your life

That you would pay the price

Of giving up everything so selfishly

Tell me

I knew the moment

I walked through his front door

That I wouldn't find the love

That I was hoping for

A little smile and a short embrace

It's kinda nice but it can't erase

All the pain of yesterday

I said I knew that we are blood

But I guess blood just ain't enough

And you can't fill the empty hole

That all your lies have dug

Tell me what could have been better

Than your own son

How could you walk away forever

Just as my life had begun

What happened in your life

That you would pay the price

Of giving up everything so selfishly

Tell me

As I look at my little boy

Full of life and full of joy

I just can't understand

Maybe I'll never understand

Cause nothing could be better

Than my own son

Could never walk away forever

Just as his life has begun

Yeah he is my whole life

So I will sacrifice

And give up everything so selflessly

Tell me

Why couldn't you do the same for me

Oh tell me