Money don't grow on trees
Now son be careful about how you spend
It's one of the many things you'd say
When I was just nine or ten
Not gonna tell you twice
Before you'd explain again
And this will hurt me more than it hurts you
I would never believe that then I see in you father
I know the father's son
The man who learns before me
How the race is run
I fix my gaze upon you
Though seldom eye to eye
You're just behind my shoulder
Suggesting what I try
You thought you knew it all too soon
Scared me to watch you grow
Hurt even more to see in you myself before all I know
Don't have to do what you say
You'd say I can do this all by myself
Come back to ask me anyway
And you knew you needed help
I see every father proudest for the son
The man who runs before me
The torch to carry on
I fix my gaze upon you
Praying as you go for now
The father's blessing the future's seeds to sow
Every father is a son
Every son only one father
See the man I must become
When I see myself in you
Breathing life and passing on
Heart of love before this started
Blessed be the ties that bind
Between a father and a son
And I see as a father
And I see as a son
The man who runs before me
Strength to carry on
I fix my gaze upon you
A race we both must run
So little time together as father and as son
This precious time together
As a father and a son