Make Believe

You said you couldn’t keep me when you were seventeen

Too young to be a father

You kissed my hand and took your leave

And you taught me how to make believe

Make believe I was a gift to you from heaven

Make believe that you would take me as your own

Make believe that you would set the mark of what a man should be

You taught me how to make believe

And now that I’ve grown older

I long for us to meet

I have a million questions

But most of all I want to see

If all of it was make believe

Another year has come and gone

I am living with your family

And I feel right at home

In the place where I always wanted to be

I’m going out this evening

I check the mirror twice

You stop me on the staircase

You kiss my hand and say that I look beautiful tonight

And I believe I was a gift to you from heaven

And I believe that you would take me as your own

I believe that you set the mark of what a man should be

Now I don’t have to make believe