Mardi Gras Blues

A song for my uncle

What did I do to make you feel

I wasn't worth the time

Was I wrong, was I bad?

Was I really that sublime

I was only a child, taken from home

Here in a place that was unknown

You left me at a parade on Mardi Gras Day

How that fucked me up as a child I can't even say

Yet you didn't even worry

You left me in a hurry

Some many people, so many faces

You left me behind without any traces

But an angel found me and took me on home

When you...you bastard left me alone

I'm a man now, no longer that waif

A man now who could but chooses no longer to hate

You and your brother, my sorry ass father

Have taught me that blood ain't shit like water

From y'all I've learnt how not to be

And as a father I am finally free

My sun shall shine

shall reign supreme

I'll give him the love y'all never seen