Name: Where are You Daddy?
Duration: 3 min 51 s
Channel: Barb Harmatys
Description: "Where are You Daddy?" is a song by Barb Harmatys. For all of those who have a father wound.

Where are You Daddy?

Barb Harmatys

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For all of those who have a father wound.

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Barb Harmatys

Christian Folk Singer/Songwriter Barb Harmatys invites you to visit her at Sound Click.

Hi. I'm Barb Harmatys and I live in a small rural community in Alberta. I'm a Christian singer/songwriter who grew up loving the folk "greats" of the 70's. I hope you like my music. I look forward to sharing it with you.

Song Info

Genre

Pop • Christian Pop

Charts

Peak #811

Peak in subgenre #108

Author

Barb Harmatys

Rights

2006 Barb Harmatys, Homepsun

Uploaded

July 03, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 8.8 MB • 320 kbps • 3:51

Story behind the song

This song was written in response to the abandonment of our family by my father when I was four years of age. Writing this song was a time of reckoning for me, as I finally put the guilt where it belonged.

Lyrics

Where are you Daddy? Where did you go?
Why don't you love us? I feel so alone.
Is it my fault? Is that why you left?
I can't stand the guilt, so I hide in myself.

I hide from the pain, and I put on a smile;
Securing my mask, I hide in my lie.
A butterfly lost, a cocoon spun so tight;
That nothing can penetrate its dark, lonely night.

But finally a light, breaks through this haze;
And displaced guilt is put properly in its place.
And this butterfly lights on tender plants in its path;
And in age wisdom comes to this childhood past.

I can never regain all that was lost;
But eternity's view takes care of the cost.
Thank you Father for love, that never let go;
Of this little girl's dreams, born so long ago.

And as I lay me down to sleep;
My Father's arms about me keep.
My childhood pain is safe in His care;
To heal and to hope, and to find Him there.

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