In the Name of the Father
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Get your head down.
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When I was a wee lad, I used to wonder
what you were doing under the towel.

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One day when you and Ma were out,
I got a big bowl of boiling water...

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whacked a big drop of Vick
and put the towel over my head.

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I sat there trying to figure out what it
was about 'cause nothing was happening.

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I figured you
must've been drinking it.

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So I stuck my tongue in it.
Do you remember that?

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How could I forget?
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And your tongue
swelled up like a football.

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Had to rush you to the hospital.
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First time you'd stopped
talking in your life.

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Give us that.
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I'll do your chest for you, Da.
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Was I always bad, was I?
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Not always.
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I don't deserve to spend
the rest of my life in here, do I?

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All they've done
is block out the light.

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They can't block out
the light in here.

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Listen.
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Every night...
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I take your mother's
hand in mine.

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We go out the front door,
into Cyprus Street...

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down to Falls Road,
up the Antrim Road...

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to Cave Hill.
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We look back down...
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on poor, troubled Belfast.
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I've been doing that every night...
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for five years now.
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As if I never left your mother.
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What I remember most
about my childhood is...

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holding your hand.
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My wee hand in your big hand.

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