🎶♥ If u brittle heart breaks we will patch it up and work it out♥🎶 Good lyric. 🎶

Echoes

[Verse 1:]
I held your hand in a foreign land, twenty twelve, I became a man
But your mama’s lies were stronger than the truth I tried to show
She built a wall from fear and shame,
Called me names, passed all the blame
And I stood there like a ghost, with nowhere left to go

[Verse 2:]
I came back home to start again,
No courtroom help, no money then
She poisoned roots before we had a chance to grow
They called me junkie, coward, fake,
My father bought what they would make
And I broke in ways no man should ever know

[Pre-Chorus:]
I ain’t a saint, Lord knows that’s true
But I’ve bled for every kid I knew
And silence was the cage they locked me in
Fathers matter — even when we can’t get in

[Chorus:]
Fathers matter when we’re left behind
Fathers matter when the truth gets blind
Fathers matter — we still love with all we’ve got
We cry for what we never caught
Grieving children still alive —
That’s the kind of pain that never dies

[Verse 3:]
You’re thirteen now, and I don’t know
If you even know my name or where I go
But I remember lullabies, not this hollow ache inside
I tried with courts, I tried with grace
But I couldn’t match their poker face
So I buried you in heartache just to survive

[Pre-Chorus:]
I made mistakes, I lost my way
But I never walked away
I just learned the cost of being shut outside
Fathers matter — even when our hands are tied

[Chorus:]
Fathers matter when we’re not believed
Fathers matter though our hearts still bleed
Fathers matter — we’re not shadows in the rain
We’re the ones who held the flame
Grieving children still alive —
That’s the kind of pain that scars your life

[Bridge:]
If you find me when you’re grown
I’ll be older, carved in stone
But I’ll hold out hope, however late, that love can still arrive

[Final Chorus:]
Fathers matter — don’t you ever doubt
Fathers matter when the world shuts us out
Fathers matter — we don’t stop, we don’t let go
We carry what they’ll never know
Grieving children still alive —
That’s the kind of pain we’ll always hide

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Tom Chaplin rose to prominence on both sides of the Atlantic in the early 2000s as the frontman for British rock group Keane. With the band, Chaplin released one of the biggest-selling U.K. albums of all time with 2004's chart-topping Hopes and Fears, following it with three more number ones into the 2010s. In between Keane efforts, he launched a solo career, starting with 2016's The Wave. A holiday album landed the following year just as Keane resumed activities to close out the 2010s. 

Tom Chaplin's brand new solo album Midpoint is available now. Listen/buy now: https://tomchaplin.lnk.to/MidpointID

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