作词 : Fran Healy

作曲 : Fran Healy

How come all of the best dads are gone?

The only ones left are all dumb

Hope I'm wrong again, wrong again, wrong

Uh huh

There's our mum

The last time we checked she was young

But all she's got left has gone numb

And she's gone again, gone again, gone

Uh huh

There's nothing wrong with a song sung into battle, oh

We need you now, don't leave us now, what a palaver, oh

What a, don't leave me

Holding the candle too long

Burning my fingers and thumbs

Holding a candle too long

How can losing one leave you half as strong?

How dare anyone sit in your chair?

Somebody needs to be there

How we gonna get, gonna get there?

But where is our guy?

Don't care if he's lonely or shy

Just two legs, a shirt and a time

We'd get by, by, by

Hi hi

And now you're gone, we don't belong

Where do we follow?

How can you say another day

When there's no tomorrow?

Tomorrow don't leave me

Holding the candle too long

Burning my fingers and thumbs

Holding a candle too long

How can losing one leave you half as strong?

There's nothing wrong with a song sung into battle, oh

We need you now, don't leave us now, what a palaver, oh

What a, don't leave me

Holding the candle too long

Burning my fingers and thumbs

Holding a candle too long

How can losing one leave you half as strong?

Burning my fingers and my thumb