When I Was Little, My Father Was Famous

When I was little, my father was famous

He was the greatest samurai in the empire

And he was the Shogun's decapitator

He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty-one lords

It was a bad time for the empire

The Shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out

People said his brain was infected by devils

My father would come home, he would forget about the killings

He wasn't scared of the Shogun, but the Shogun was scared of him

Maybe that was the problem

Then, one night, the Shogun sent his ninja spies to our house

They were supposed to kill my father but they didn't

That was the night everything changed