After I'm Gone 💔 – Michael Bennett | Heartbreaking Father Poem (Lyrics English & Spanish)

After I'm Gone – Michael Bennett (Lyrics Video) | English & Spanish Subtitles Lyrics Eng/Esp credit thumbnail: After I'm Gone • Michael Bennett | Music Video (With Lyrics)    • After I'm Gone • Michael Bennett | Music V...   After I'm Gone You don't call me anymore. You just say you're busy. I see you laughing with the world, but you don't make time for me. You walk past everything I gave like it was nothing at all. I gave you my whole life. You can't give me one call. I'm still your father. Why do I feel erased? YEAH, I HAD FLAWS. YEAH, I GOT LOUD, BUT I NEVER ONCE WALKED OUT. AFTER I'M GONE, you'll feel this pain. Every ignored text, every missed name. When the world hits dirt and the crowd goes home, you'll finally understand what it means to be alone. You'll say you love me. You'll cry on cue, but love shows up. Why didn't you? I was here. I was breathing. You just stopped believing. When I was sick, you didn't know. When I was weak, you didn't show. You never asked if I was okay. You never missed me enough to stay. I waited for you. You never came. Now I'm just a fading name. I told myself you'd come around, but hope gets quiet without a sound. After I'm gone, YOU'LL WISH YOU TRIED. YOU'LL replay nights you let me cry. You'll stand there shaking hands in regret, wishing you could undo what you chose to forget. You'll say you love me. Maybe you did, but love isn't words. It's what you give. Jesus forgives. I hope he does, because one day you'll answer for us. AND HE'LL ASK YOU, SIMPLE AND PLAIN, WHY YOU NEVER CAME. After I'm gone, don't tell the crowd you were proud. Don't post my picture. Don't say my name if you couldn't show up while I felt the pain. I was here. I was alive. YOU JUST THOUGHT I HAD MORE TIME. After I'm gone, you'll finally see: you didn't lose me— you abandoned me. --- My hands bled just for you. I worked until they shook. I missed my own dream so you could chase the ones you took. I stood outside in the cold so you could sleep in warm light. I swallowed every fear just to keep you all right. Now I sit alone in a house I built for us. You pass my name in silence like I'm someone you don't trust. You left me here waiting. You don't even try. Yeah, I made mistakes. I wasn't easy to love, but I never stopped showing up. I never gave up. After I'm gone, when the world hits dirt, when the sound of goodbye finally stops to hurt, you'll wish you came. You'll wish you stayed. You'll replay every call you never made. You'll say you love me. You'll swear you cared, but love shows up and you weren't there. I was here. I was alive. You just thought I had more time. When I fell down, you never found me. When I needed you, you weren't around me. I watched your life move on so fast while I was stuck inside the past. I kept the porch light on at night. I told myself you'd make it right, but hope gets tired— and so do I. You left me behind and called it life. You didn't mean to hurt me— that's what you'd say, but not meaning to still hurts this way. After I'm gone, standing by my grave, you'll cry for the time you never gave. You'll touch that stone. You'll say my name, but it won't answer. It won't be the same. You'll beg for one more chance to call, but silence won't answer. Jesus forgives. I tried to too, but even he knows love has to move on. One day you'll stand before him alone, and he'll ask you why you never came home. --- After I'm gone, when the dirt falls down, when they lower me slow into the ground, that's when you'll feel what you denied. I was still here when you let me slide. I was your father. I needed you. Not your money— just something true. After I'm gone, regret will stay longer than I ever did. Waiting for you, there waiting. Waiting for you there.