A Cancer Uncontained

Once invincible, your head help up so high

Who knew this disease would change it all in the blink of an eye

Try to survive father of mine

Who knew this world would have

Given you such a cruel twist of fate

Your hands won't stop, your hands won't stop shaking

God wasn't so fair to you or me

Gave you a beating heart, then gave you atrophy

A body built to degenerate

And you keep breathing all the same

Father, it kills me to see you so helpless

When all you ever wanted was a way out

And you were only given nothing but a wife who packs and leaves

And a crippling disease that

Eats away at your body but not your soul

That heart's still got a beat

So don't you dare give up on me now

Try to survive father of mine

You know it breaks my heart to watch those tremors take over

Infection spreads so quick with no cure in sight

A cancer uncontained but you still fight

It can't rip away everything about the man I knew

The one who picked me up after all I've been through

I understand why you're terrified to close your eyes each night

It's the fear of never waking up, you have so much more to see

So I'll do all I can to keep that fucking heart beating

Father, I know your hands won't stop shaking

But those lungs still breathe so don't give up on me