Daddy’s Just Broke

Got a key to the door but I don’t live there Got my name on the loan but I don’t sit there My kid got a room in a house that I built And I stand in the drive like I died but exist Every bill still hit, every month still land Put my back in them walls, now I’m backed out the frame I don’t beef with the past, I got pain in the present ’Cause I’m still her father, just not in her setting My baby girl still doesn’t know Why her daddy ain’t home, just a voice through the phone Why her mama cries late, why another man shows She might think I don’t love her like I loved her before But daddy never changed, baby, daddy just broke These keys still fit But they don’t let me in My name’s on the house But I don’t live in it My baby’s inside And I’m outside again I built that whole world Now I don’t fit in it Maybe one day you’ll ask why mama and dad ain’t no more friends Why I never put our wreckage in your little hands Why I never told you what your daddy went through Why I let you love us both and I just stayed bruised It was never ’cause I left, never ’cause I ain’t care I just couldn’t drag your heart through what happened there I won’t make you choose sides, won’t make you hold blame I’d rather lose out loud than put that weight on your name These keys still fit But they don’t let me in My name’s on the house But I don’t live in it My baby’s inside And I’m outside again I built that whole world Now I don’t fit in it If you ever doubt it, baby, I just broke — not us