(Shining like a-shining like a sunflower, up in the sky)
(Shining like a-shining like a sunflower, up in the sky)

Thank you for forgiving hurtful things I've done as a child, adolescent or woman (la-la-la, la-la-la)
Thank you for embracing a flaxen-haired baby
Although I'm aware that you had your doubts
(I guess anybody would have had doubts)
I guess anybody would have had doubts

Please be at-peace, father
I'm at peace with you
Bitterness isn't worth clinging to (clinging to), after all of the anguish we've all been through
Thank you for the mountains, the lake of the clouds
I'm picturing you and me there right now
As the crystal cascades shower down

So strange to feel that proud, strong man grip tightly to my hand
Hard to see the life inside wane as the days went by
Trying to preserve each word he murmured in my ear
Watching part of my life disappear (disappear)

Father, thanks for reaching out lovingly
Saying that you've always been proud of me
I needed to hear that so desperately
You're always alive inside of me

(Now you're shining like a-shining like a sunflower, up in the sky)
(Now you're shining like a-shining like a sunflower, up in the sky)
Way up high