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Going About My Father's Business Lyrics
Standing in the darkness watching while you sleep
I can hear you softly breathing while I creep
Going about my father's business
Doing my father's time
What's done to me I'll do to mine
I woke up one summer morning he was gone
Soft light through the window breaking for my son
Going about my father's business
Doing my father's time
What's done to me I'll do to mine
Know them by what they do
Let no-one speak for you
Just this I beg of you
Forgive me, forgive me
Someday when we sign the treaty I'll be home
War is long and lasts for ever and I'm your own
Going about my father's business
Doing my father's time
What's done to me I'll do to mine
What's done to me I'll do to mine
I can hear you softly breathing while I creep
Doing my father's time
What's done to me I'll do to mine
Soft light through the window breaking for my son
Doing my father's time
What's done to me I'll do to mine
Let no-one speak for you
Just this I beg of you
Forgive me, forgive me
War is long and lasts for ever and I'm your own
Doing my father's time
What's done to me I'll do to mine
What's done to me I'll do to mine
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His father's business is in fact going in to look upon his sleeping son. He recalls that his own father did this to him. Suggestions of broken marriages in the song, perhaps his father wasn't around for long and the cycle has repeated. He treats his son in the same way his father treated him. Nice sax at the end.