Dance With My Father

我骑着单车给哥哥送他爱吃的卤鸭，我亲手卤制的，那是妈妈生前的绝活，我口腹的最爱，哥哥也爱吃。
姐姐给我哥哥家的电话，错了！（看来她和哥哥也疏离了）我摸上门，门铃响了很久没人应。正待离去，转身见哥哥回来，感觉天意没让我白跑一趟。

他领我进屋，我们聊了好一阵。哥在我小的时候就长期寄宿公司，从打杂的学徒做起，忍受少东的欺负，到后来创立“大业布行”。父亲早逝，哥在六、七十年代就一直挑起养家的重担。

还记得，每一次祭拜父亲和大妈的时候，也是我们领取家用补贴的时候。哥嫂含辛茹苦带大三个女儿，如今各有家庭。遗憾的是我长年生活劳碌在外，未能回报他养大我们兄弟之恩。看得出今天我上门，他很高兴，塞了两罐潮州佛手给我带回去。

还好，年少闯江湖的经验形成他阳光好动的个性，退而不休，同时参加三个社团的义工活动。看到哥哥，就想到我的父亲，想起Luther Vandross一首动情的歌曲《与父亲共舞》，其中有一句唱得感情至深，让人触动：

If I could get another chance
Another walk…
Another dance…
with him
I'd play a song that would never ever end
How I'd love love love to dance with my father again...
先熟悉一下歌词吧：



如果你还有兴致，静心听一听这首歌：


Back when I was a child
Before life removed all the innocence
My father would lift me high
And dance with my mother and me and then

Spin me around till I fell asleep
Then up the stairs he would carry me
And I knew for sure
I was loved

If I could get another chance
Another walk, another dance with him
I'd play a song that would never, ever end
How I'd love, love, love to dance with my father again

Ooh, ooh......

When I and my mother would disagree
To get my way I would run from her to him
He'd make me laugh just to comfort me, yeah, yeah
Then finally make me do just what my mama said

Later that night when I was asleep
He left a dollar under my sheet
Never dreamed that he
Would be gone from me

If I could steal one final glance
One final step, one final dance with him
I'd play a song that would never, ever end
'Cause I'd love, love, love to dance with my father
again

Sometimes I'd listen outside her door
And I'd hear her, mama cryin' for him
I pray for her even more than me
I pray for her even more than me

I know I'm prayin' for much too much
But could You send back the only man she loved
I know You don't do it usually
But Lord, she's dyin' to dance with my father again
Every night I fall asleep
And this is all I ever dream