448. "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" U2

"Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own"
U2
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
2004

I pulled over when I heard this song on the radio ("95.5 WBRU, All the hits from the 90's, the 1990's, and the decade after the 80's! Plus the occasional new U2 song").
My dad had been gone at the time for just over five years, still fresh enough that it would sneak up and hit me sometimes. Those were less and less frequent as the years passed, but when I heard the lyric "It's you when I don't pick up the phone," I had to do my civic duty and get my ass off the public roads.
I don't see my dad when I look in the mirror yet. We have some of the same mannerisms, but that's really it.
It will come. I'm still eight years younger than he was when I was born.
The coolest thing, though, the coolest fucking thing? Is when I see my parents in my daughters' faces.
Life is a wonder.