Daddy, Won't You Please Come Home?

When night is creepin'
And I should be sleepin' in bed
If you were peepin'
You'd find that I'm weepin' instead

 My lovin' daddy left his baby again
Said he'd come back but he forgot to say when

 Night after night, I'm cryin'
Daddy, won't you please come home?
Daddy, won't you please come home?
I'm so lonesome

 No one can fill that vacant chair
Home isn't home when you're not there
No need to knock, the door is open for you
Please, daddy

 Even the clock keeps tickin'
Daddy won't you please come home?
Daddy do you have to roam so very long?
There's lots of other new sheiks who would like to be sheikin'
Haven't slipped yet, but I'm liable to weaken
Daddy, daddy, won't you please come home?

That's all

Daddy, Won't You Please Come Home? originally performed by Annette Henshaw

Erin at Carey in B&W

Into this Universe, and Why not knowing

Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing;

And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,

I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.

 

And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press,

End in the Nothing all Things end in--Yes-

Then fancy while Thou art, Thou art but what

Thou shalt be--Nothing--Thou shalt not be less.

Look to the blowing Rose about us--"Lo,

Laughing," she says, "into the world I blow,

At once the silken tassel of my Purse

Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw."

Various quatrains from The Rubaiyat, written by Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), English translation by Edward Fitzgerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883)

Fallen Angel

She stepped off the bus
Out into the city streets
Just a small town girl
With her whole life packed
In a suitcase by her feet

But somehow the lights didn't
shine as bright as they did
On her mama's TV screen

And the work seemed harder
The days seemed longer
Than she ever thought they'd be

But you know you got to stick to your guns
When it all comes down
Cause sometimes you can't choose
It's like heads they win
Tails you're gonna lose

Fallen Angel by Poison
Written by Dall, Deville, Michaels, Rockett
From the 1988 album 'Open Up and Say...Ahh!'