From the recording Fatherhood
Lyrics
Fatherhood
©2023 Rhan Wilson
I watched him cling to you
Trusting You’d keep him safe
As the waves came crashing ‘round
High in the air he’d fly
Under your watchful eye
Screaming, daddy - do it again
He would stand beside you
As he learned your tools of trade
He’d watch as you shaped Your words, the wood,
and your photographs
Oh, how I envy you
Oh, how I can only dream
That one might look to me
as he does to you
Fatherhood
I know I could have been so good
and if I had a son, I too
would teach him everything I knew
Fatherhood
I often wonder if I could
But life just didn’t turn that way
perhaps another life, someday
He sees your face within his own
When he looks into the mirror
He hopes and hopes and hopes and hopes and hopes...
he made you proud
And in one hundred years
His son will say through tears
Daddy I love you
And you taught me well.