Footloose - I Confess (Key: OR Gmaj)

Title: I Confess
Format: MP3 Backing Track - Instrumental - Karaoke
Created in the style of: Footloose
Genre: Movie, Musical & Soundtrack
Language: English
Era: 2000s; 2010s
Key: OR Gmaj
Backing vocals: No
More info: This version is featured on The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Footloose: The Musical.
Lyrics: Yes
 
Oh yes, he has all the answers
He's gonna set me straight
How can he presume to know what I've been through?
He hasn't got a clue
But how could anyone unless they've had a son
 
As perfect as a child can be
The best of all the best in me
My brush with immortality, my kid
For sixteen winters and fifteen springs
I had a son, and still it stings
When I remember all the things we did
Me and my kid
 
Simple things like fishing at the lake
Tiptoeing out before dawn
Bobbie would worry if we didn't hurry
All the fish would be gone
 
We would sit and huddle in the boat
Waiting for something to bite
And I'd watch the sun rise in my own son's eyes
And the world would fill up with light
 
And Bobbie would ask a million questions:
Daddy how many is the biggest number?
Or Daddy, why do I have a thumb?
 
And I confess, I didn't always have the answers
I didn't always know which way was true
Nevertheless, I always tried to lead with love
That's all that any father can do
 
As the years went by we had our differences
But then who doesn't
Even if the friendship wasn't all it was before
We shared a lot and who'd've thought
That so much joy could vanish in a blink
Whoever stops to think
 
And in that final moment who knows what went wrong
The questions come to late, and linger far too long
 
And I confess I don't always have the answers
I don't always know which way is true
Nevertheless I always try to lead with love
That's all that any father can do
 
And then look, look what do I do!
 
This boy comes to me, this fatherless child
I scoff at his pain and I send him away
My daughter speaks up and I shout her down
I won't hear a word of what she has to say
My wife reaches out and I turn my back
I send her to bed without even a kiss
Can my God forgive the things I have done
While I tried forgetting how much I'm still missing my son
 
I'm tired of feeling nothing, but numb
Maybe the time has come
To finally let the world in
But how do I begin?
 
Ooh ooh ooh ooh...
 
Give me strength, and maybe then
I can reach my fellow men
So we all may rise again
 
I confess I don't always have the answers
I don't always know which way is true
Nevertheless, I've always try to lead with love
Please join me in asking our Lord to guide and protect our children
 
Composer: TOM SNOW/DEAN PITCHFORD