Daddy Issues

You've hurt my pride more times than I can count
Just like my father
You ask me to be two opposite things at once
Just like my father
You never accepted me the way that I am
Just like my father
You tell me you love me all the time
Just like my father

I'm not interested
In who you think I should be
You don't even bother to know the real me
Some things you say
Hurt me in a way that leaves me writhing forever in pain

You don't try to understand me
Just like my father
You scold and reprimand me
Just like my father
You don't see that my obsessions are who I am
Just like my father
You mock the person you think I am
Just like my father

And still I struggle for your approval
Pathetically wanting to know I'm in the right
But I'll never be good enough
Because you make me not want to be good enough
I want to be bad just to make you mad
And make you feel the way you make me feel

I know you truly love me
Just like my father
I appreciate the good you've done for me
Just like my father
I haven't forgotten when the good outweighed the bad
Like it used to when I was little
But you can't ever learn
And I can't deal with someone
Just like my father