This song is where the album enters its darkest moment. Where parental alienation starts to show its face and claws. The song 'Why can't I love And be happy with my father' delves into the emotional turmoil experienced by a child caught in the middle of parental conflict, portraying the impact of parental alienation on the child's psyche. It highlights the struggle of the child to navigate through the war-like situation created by the adults, questioning why love has to be turned into a battleground and emphasizing the enduring nature of a child's love despite the chaos surrounding them 13. Why can’t I love And be happy with my father This month the silence sharpened into war Parental alienation growing more and more For years it circled quietly around my daughters mind And because she was still a child it worked with time The first long silence where a voice had been A sudden block where messages once lived in between Then words of anger repeated once again Echoes of voices that were never hers to begin Something in her eyes still fought the storm A quiet truth trying to be born Why cannot I love And be happy with my father Why must love be turned to war A child standing in the middle Of a wound she never asked for April eighth became the day the line was crossed My daughter asking what the payments cost Questions a child should never have to hold Carrying burdens far too heavy and too old Then words like knives were thrown at me Cruel and bitter hostility Insults no child invents alone Another voice speaking through her tone And still beneath the borrowed pain I could feel her heart remain Why cannot I love And be happy with my father Why must truth be bent this way A child searching through the noise For one honest place to stay That day my daughter stayed with a relative A lawyer tied to the case we live Lines were crossed the law should guard Turning a child against her fathers heart A small gift once became a crime A memory twisted over time After months without her face Love reduced to evidence Why cannot I love And be happy with my father Why must love be torn apart A child standing in the middle Of a silent family war Why cannot I love And be happy with my father Why must I be made to choose In the ruins of the shouting Only love has more to lose So I showed her stories like our own Of children left to stand alone For a moment truth appeared And the storm inside her cleared She saw that she was not the only one Not the only child made to run And for one fragile breath of time Peace returned and she was mine Why cannot I love And be happy with my father Let that question ring and stay Past the lies and past the damage Truth will find its way Why cannot I love And be happy with my father Even now beneath it all A child still knows what love is Even when the grown ones fall Somewhere beyond the noise and war My daughter still remembers What love is for more