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Artist: Melanie Safka
Canonical path: /melanie-safka/for-my-father
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For My Father
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For My Father
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I'm gonna spend all my money
Gonna spend all my time
I'm gonna spend the music
Cause the music is mine
I'm gonna spend myself
For the sake of the rhyme
But I'll save a little bit for my father
Gonna save a little bit for my father
I'm gonna pack a suitcase
Gonna run to the sea
I'm gonna run as far
As I can away from me
I'm gonna take comfort
In the town of the tree
I would stop but then I wouldn't go farther
And that would really break the heart of my father
Gonna spend all my money
Gonna spend all my time
I'm gonna spend the music
Cause the music is mine
I'm gonna spend myself
For the sake of the rhyme
But I'll save a little bit for my father
I'm gonna pack a suitcase
Gonna run to the sea
I'm gonna run as far
As I can away from me
I'm gonna take comfort
In the town of the tree
I would stop but then I wouldn't go farther
And that would really break the heart of my father
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Melanie Safka performs "For My Father", and this lyric page sits inside the Melanie Safka catalog on LyroVerse.
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