Grandpa's Interlude

And we would go—

One day I'll never forget,

We used to dance on Second Avenue

And come out the train station on the avenue,

And the building we danced in was on the corner

We came out with our—

We were with our friends with— that we danced with

And we came out the train station

And daddy was sittin’ there on the—

On the train station, um, steps

And me and Marcell were like, "Daddy?"

And our friends were like,

"Daddy? That's your father?" Hahaha

And we were like, "Yeah"

And, I mean, that goes to show you, if—

If when you love a person,

It doesn't matter if they’re dirty

It doesn't matter if they look like a bum,

It doesn't matter

We hugged daddy and kissed daddy

And cried 'cause we hadn't seen him in so long

Mhm

And, um, every— we told everybody else,

Of course, to go and he asked us

What we were doin' over there

And we said we dance right here

So we showed him the building that we dance in

And daddy met us at that building

Every day for the summer

We just tried to take care of him as much as we could,

Even though he was livin' in that situation

He— he was always smilin'

Even though he was goin’ through—

Goin’ through something, mhm

The negative parts of his life, I never saw him sad

Yeah, even when he would come see— up here

I ne— and that was one thing that was outstanding to me

Because he was never, ever—

I— he coulda been sad inside,

But on the outsie he was always smiling

Always smiling

And we— and when the end of the summer came,

We knew we weren't gonna see him

Because that was the end of our rehearsals

So it just kinda dwindled, you know, kinda dwindled off