And a Daughter Came Instead....

Imagine the disappointment of man who has no male heir to carry on his grand legacy into the world, no name bearer, no trace that he ever existed on the planet.
Imagine what he most pined for, a son, was given to him and then taken ruthlessly away.
Imagine the web of pain and self pity that he has knit around himself.
Imagine how incomplete and inferior he must feel, when he sees his friends and brothers nurturing that superior race as their offspring.
What Misfortune !
What Pity !


The century before you never could turn 21
Years and years he waited just watching for a son
For someone to go ahead, take the name he said
Years and years he waited and a daughter came instead


And then imagine that man, having an obedient and intelligent daughter, no less than any son.
Imagine him having a doting and dutiful wife, better than the wives of any of his mates.

Imagine that daughter fulfilling all duties and pursuing all activities that her non-existant brothers might've taken up.
Imagine her stifling all her heart's desires, trying so very hard to be the son God never intended her to be.

Imagine that wife never complaining inspite of all her husbands unfair ordeals.
Imagine her never raising her voice against anything she thought unfair, always being compliant to her husband's wishes.
Imagine her allowing him to share himself with another woman, all so he may be as blessed as other men were.
Imagine her supression.









And then, think for a moment, about the desperate life of this man who never appreciated his family, because of the one he could never get.
Imagine him being a husband to a wife who deserved so much better.
Imagine him being the man his daughter imagined the rest of the men to be like.

But that's enough for now, he should've never left you broken
He should've held you, things your father never could do
That's enough for now, he would've never left you broken
He would've held you, things your father never told you

Breathing comes in pairs
Except for twice
One begins and one's goodbye

Sixty years of sorrow he got 5 or 6 of bliss
Left my mother’s mother without so much as a kiss.

Men with inferiority complexes as huge as these should be hanged in the Square.
They are responsible for destroying personalities, and giving unnaturally low expectations to the ones they live with.
They lower their family's worth of self.

They deserve no pity. No Kindness.




Lyrics quoted from "Enough For Now" by "The Fray".