I spent a long time away from my dad after he left when I was a teenager, and last year I had the chance to stay with him for a bit, which brought us closer together, but on his birthday we and his friends went to karaoke night and I watched him sing Willie Nelson's All Of Me. I'd never seen my dad sing in earnest before, except when I was real little and he sang the mockingbird lullaby, but Willie Nelson was always in the tape deck when we went on road trips when I was a kid. I'd never really listened to the lyrics before, and I know obviously it's about a breakup but suddenly it hit me how much I lost when he left back then, and I had to go out into the parking lot in the middle of the song and just sit on the curb and decompress. That all sounds really maudlin but it was intense and every time I listen to it, since I'm living across the continent from him again, it's kind of hard.