Heartbreaking “After I’m Gone” By MIKHAIL BENNETT Vivo Tunes Talent | Full Emotional Performances

Don't call me like you used to You just say you're busy now I see you laughing with the whole world But you don't come around You walk past everything I gave Like it never meant a thing All those years I stood beside you Now they don't mean anything I tell myself you'll come back home But nights just prove me wrong After I'm gone All the times I held you close Or will I fade? I call December Like a story no one knows When you were broken How when you were small Now I'm standing here in silence Like I meant nothing at all I still keep the light on for him Lord, even though he never comes Every step I hear outside I still pray it might be him, my son I don't need your explanations I don't need to understand I just wish you'd look me in the eyes And call me dad again I never asked for anything Just a place inside your life After I'm gone Do you feel it? Will it hit you when I'm not? Will you finally hear my silence? Echo through the empty air I gave you more than I could give More than words could ever show But love don't mean much anymore If there's nowhere left to go Just tired, tired of waiting After I'm gone Will you come back to the house you left behind? Will you finally see the pieces? And you could If there's mercy in this lifetime If love still means something true Don't wait until I'm gone To say You love me too I'm still here Just in case You remember I am sorry, father I remember that gravel road You're standing tall while I let go You said, son, the truth will set you free I said, that truth ain't meant for me You traded grace for a restless town Turned my prayers for a whiskey crown Now the night feels twice as cold And you're just my boy growing old You warned your storms would surely come But pride makes a deaf man run I'm sorry, father, I broke your heart Tore our little world apart You gave me love, I pushed away Like Judas in the light of day And mercy's written in his hands And grace still covers broken men I'm on my knees where I once stood tall Son, I forgive it all I remember the cross above my door You said you didn't need it anymore I kept a lamp beside my bed Still praying over words you said Now Psalm 51 feels like mine Creating me one more time I try to go with your dirty hands Hoping you'll still understand You love me more than I deserve Even when it hurts You chose your way Turned your back and walked away I carried faith like a burning flame While you carried anger in my name If heaven hears a sinner's cry If love outlives goodbye I'm laying down this foolish pride Father, I'm coming home tonight Come home tonight I see you there in my mind Head down low, lost in the night You weren't wrong, just couldn't see What faith was trying to be The scripture says a broken heart God will not despise So bring me home I'm sorry, Father, for wasting years For all your unanswered tears I stood like Job in faithful pain While you ran from His holy name If grace is wider than the sea And change can fall from a man like me Then meet me at that older road I'm finally coming home The porch lights are on It always was Come I poured your cup And set your place Still talk to air like it's yours Rain on the ceiling Keep saying stay But every drop just fades away I hold my breath between these words Like maybe you'll be the one who answers first When I talk to you like this Are you listening at all? Do you hear my crooked prayer Or just let it fall? Just let it fall She was all I ever had Can I let her slip right through? I'm begging you to give her back But I know that's not what you do It's not what you do Wear this ring On empty hands I broke our vow On borrowed plans Her suitcase door Still hits my head Every time I make the bed If mercy's real It must sound rough Cause I'm right here And I am not alone When I talk to you like this Are you listening at all? Do you hear my crooked prayer Or just let it fall? She was all I ever had Can I let her slip right through? I'm begging you to give her back But I know that's not what you do That's not Have you ever loved a fool? I'm the proof of how it ends Oh lord Taught me how to lose myself Just to learn I lost my friend So take my nights Take my sleep Leave me this One promise I can keep When I talk to you like this Do you feel it in my bone? Do you taste the salt and whiskey In every word I grow She was all I ever had And I tore that truth in two If you can't bring her back to me Then at least Teach me how to live here Without her And still believe in you Still believe Then turn to speak Hello my To an empty seat