The lyrics of "between me and my father"

It includes a sample of the movie judge daddy

Why'd you pull me out of Boy Scouts?

Why did you let me out of the boy scouts

As punishment for blowing up McGraw's mailbox with an air gun

I was 13. That, you remember. That.

I was 13 years old, and you remember that

Oh. Old enough to know better.

Big enough, big enough to be more sensible

You didn't come to my high school and college graduations

Jail time, truancy. I wasn't gonna reward anything. None of your s__ T.

Stay in jail and play truant. There's nothing I can celebrate about your crap

I graduated from law school, for chrissake.

God, I graduated from law school

As opposed to what, dropping out? Ooh.

Or what? Drop out?

F__ k you!

Let me tell you something, okay? Here.

Listen to me, OK? Take it

I put a roof over your head, money in your pocket...

I'll give you a house to live in and money to spend

...clothes on your back, food in your mouth!

I'll buy you clothes to wear and feed you to grow up!

Who paid for that college education

I didn't go to the graduation ceremony to flatter you

I never showed up to kiss your ass over?

But who pays the tuition?

Your mother? She was a housewife.

You expect your mother? She's just a housewife

Why couldn't you swallow your pride and come home to her?

Why can't you just drop your damn pride and come home and see her?

You tell me why!

You mean it?

You'd invite people at the end of parole back to court.

Because you invite people out of prison to court

You'd recognize those who did their time,

You admit that they've gone through time

turned their lives around...

Changed my life

...made something of themselves.

The realization of self-worth

Everyone in court would applaud.

Everyone in the court applauded

You'd make sure they did.

You made them clap

Tell them how proud you were.

And you tell them you're proud of them

Proud of ****ing strangers.

Proud of a bunch of damn strangers

Is that all you wanted, Henry?

Is that all you want, Henry

A kind word and "Attaboy"?

A compliment you are a good boy?

Then to use your words,you should have come

In your words

the **** home!

You should go home and listen

We all waited.

We've all been waiting for you

Quietly.

Waiting in silence

But you never came.

But you never came back

Okay? And I was the one she blamed

Because you don't know about going home

because you wouldn't come home. Me.

Who has your mother been blaming? Me

Now, was I tough on you? Yes.

Am I strict with you? you 're right

How'd you turn out, Henry?

Look at you now, Henry?

Waiting tables? A bum?

Is that the waiter? Is it a tramp

You put me in juvenile detention.

You sent me to juvenile detention

You sent me to ****ing Vanderburgh!

You sent me to the goddamn Vanderberg County juvenile center!

No, you put yourself there.

It's not me. It's your fault

Did I?

Am I to blame?

Yes.

Yes

The prosecutor recommended community service. It was your call.

The prosecution proposes community service. It's your decision to put me in juvenile detention

No. It wouldn't have helped you.

No, community service won't help you

I didn't need help. I needed you!

What I need is not help, but you!

You were high. You rolled a car with your brother in it.

You're smoking. Your brother rolled over

He had a Major League career ahead of him...

He could have played in the major leagues

And 90miles an hour fastball and he runs a tire shop.

Someone who can hit 90 km ends up with a tire store

You crippled him, you stole his future,

You crippled him and ruined his future

I was just 17. That's what happened. I was 17.

I was 17. That's why it happened. I was 17

"I was 13. I was 17."

"I'm 13, I'm 17"

You were headed down the wrong path.

You were on the wrong road

I did what I thought was right.

I did what I thought I should do

You know, I didn't just graduate from law school.

I didn't just graduate from law school

I graduated first in my class.

I graduated first in my class

I was first in my class.

I am the first in the class

I did really well, Dad.

I did a good job, Dad

You're welcome.

You're welcome

F__ K.