More Like Daddy Than Me

I just spent an unusual evening

At a banquet that still won't digest

Watching this years high school heroes

Get awarded for what they do best

There's a letter for the one that jumped highest

And one ran faster by far

One broke the 200 meters

And one broke her arm on the bar

The baseball team took the honours

The MDP stole the show

The coach looked scared with the tie on

Swore, next year they'd be 15 and old

And in tomorrow mornings newspaper

There'll be pictures that surely reveal

Young men looking strange with no caps on

And Tomboys in dresses and heels

And I've stood up there where they're standing

And never once thought I would be

Sitting down here where I'm sitting

Looking more like my Daddy than me

Looking more like my Daddy than me

20 some years from tomorrow

These same boys and girls will find

An old fading newspaper clipping

Yellow and torn up with time

Their daughters and sons will be standing

Up there where they used to be

And only then will they know what I'm feeling

When they're sitting out here with me

And I've stood up there where they're standing

Behind the MDP

But it's late, I'm tired and still hungry

Acting more like my Daddy than me

I'm getting more like my Daddy than me