come on, baby won’t you open the door
once more, for me,
you’re so familiar with the lock and key
that keeps the space between us
Come on, baby, you know your daddy’s coming home
from the place where he was doing you wrong
You know I wish that I could write you a song that says
I know the places I went made you worry
but I swear from now on
If you call, I will be coming in a hurry

The only place I wanna go is back in time (Back in time)
To a place where we can make it better
I know I can’t ever get back that sweet child o’ mine
by writing it out in a postcard or a letter
and as I circled the world,
I wasn’t searching for pearls
Just trying to find the way
Just trying to find the way back to Daddy’s Little Girl

Oh my baby, I don’t know where to begin
to figure out how it came to an end
‘cause back when you were young
your friends wouldn’t come over
because of what I did when I wasn’t sober
I know, it wasn’t enough to leave your mother
I didn’t even tell my own daughter
of bringing my new wife to her brother’s wedding
and I could say “I’m only human”
but that don’t fix the things I’ve ruined
or bring back the daughter that I’m losing

Why would I ever want to go away so far (from where you are)
when where you are is where I want to be
I’ll never get back the days when you would drive my car
Cause I wasn’t strong enough to take the driver’s seat
you know I was scared of the truth
about all the things I did to you
and when I circle the planet
shoulda known that I had it all
wrapped up in a pearl
from Daddy’s little girl

oh you my baby, life used to be wonderful
back before I’d come to know
That dreams don’t come on silver plates
and God gives out a cruel thing called fate
maybe you can relate
you know I wish that I could write you a book
but I think I found a sentence that might be the hook
Cause I think you also know about the light that it took
the prayer that helped to change me
I don’t know where it came from or where it’s going
but I hope that day by day the chance
of something between you and I is growing

The only place I wanna go, is back in time
to some place we could work it out, and put it back together
how can I ever get back that sweet child of mine?
I don’t know but I hope we can find out together
and just as you said, here’s a note from the doctor
to show that I stopped putting coke in my vodka
and that’s when you said you promise you’d be talking to me
It’s all for you, can’t you see