Lyrics: Mountain Goats, The. Song For My Stepfather.

You have got

that look in your eye

in the pinprick point where kindness goes to die

I'll be six years old next year

You erase me



you'll be sorry

you always feel sorry later on

when you come around to say so

I will be gone

and in my place meet my letter perfect body double

you erase me



when i got ready

to set out on my own

took up the reigns myself all through you

dug the spurs in clean down to the bone

but all that comes later

now there's only you and me

and the replica where my body used to be

you can go ahead and hit him

he feels no pain at all

you erase me

you erase me