I’ll be Damned

© 2001 Al McKegg

Verse 1

I’ll be damned if I’ll be ashamed

of what I did to you

Darling, that was long ago

It was all that I could do

Since you were you, and I was me

We saw some things real differently

but I’ll be damned if I’ll be ashamed

of what I did to you

Verse 2

It broke me up to tear apart

what you and I had made

But dreams that held our roof up

had gone hollow and decayed

We spoke words, but not our hearts

and year by year, we slipped apart

But I’ll be damned if I’ll be ashamed

of what I did to you

Chorus

No, I ain’t proud

I know I hurt you so

But all that water’s gone down the stream

And the stream’s been swallowed by the sea

Verse 3

I said goodbye to my little girls

Goodbye to seeds I’d sewn

And now, in just one breath of time

They’ve children of their own

Strong and eager, eyes afire

with childhood’s simple glee

and I’ll be damned if I’m not blessed

by what you did for me

Repeat Chorus twice