Hey Taylor honey this song is for you

You sing about the night he left

About the tears on your guitar

About the way the world went dark

When love drove off too far

And I don't say your pain's not real I know it leaves a mark

But there's a deeper kind of ache that lives inside a father's heart

It starts the day he holds her close a tiny hand in his

A promise made without a word a vow that just exists

You don't know a father's heart

How it breaks in quiet rooms

How it feels her every scar

Like it was carved in him too

You don't know the helpless prayer

When she's crying in the dark

You know love that falls apart

But you don't know a father's heart

He saw her first breath in this world he heard her first small cry

He learned to be her superhero without a cape or spotlight

He danced with her at three years old he watched her dreams take flight

He'd trade his own tomorrow just to keep her safe tonight

But time has hands that pull away she grows and chooses wrong

He stands there with a shattered smile while she writes her heartbreak songs

You don't know a father's heart

How it shatters silently

When the man she chose walks out

And she falls back to her knees

He wants to take the hurt himself

To tear it clean apart

You know the pain of a loving man

But you don't know a father's heart

He can't live her life for her can't fight the war she'll choose

He can only stand with open arms when she's got more to lose

And every tear she cries at night is one he feels twice through

He'd rather bleed a thousand times than watch it happen to her too

You don't know a father's heart

How it never clocks out never rests

How even when she's grown and gone

She's still beating in his chest

You can turn heartbreak into gold

Into stages lights and art

But love that stays through every storm

So sing your songs Taylor sweetheart

Of broken love they matter they're a part

Just know there's deeper quiet pain

In a dad's unguarded heart