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When I rearrange the pieces of the puzzle of my past |
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I sigh at the heartaches, relive the laughs |
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And I think about the moments that have left their mark |
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And the too few faces that shine a little light in the dark |
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If you don't mind I'm gonna tell you a story |
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And I think that it won't bore you |
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For it's a tale that I've never told |
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To anyone before you 'cause it's for you |
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The sun of sixteen summers had put halos in your hair |
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If anything was in my head, twelve winters put it there |
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A dollar an hour is what Mama paid you to come and mind her kids |
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But no one could really pay you enough for what you really did |
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Many happy things keep happening on my journey through this world |
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And in ways that I will never understand |
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I was much too late to be the first to make you a woman |
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But you were the one who made my mother's son a man |
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You know I used to read myself to sleep when I went to bed |
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I guess I was a dreamer then who lived inside my head |
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But the nights you came you talked of things, I found, I had a friend |
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You brought my fears of people to a sure and gentle end |
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Many happy things keep happening on my journey through this world |
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And in ways that I will never understand |
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I was much too late to be the first to make you a woman |
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But you are the one who made my mother's son a man |
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Do you remember the night when you turned out the light |
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And you said to me, "Please hold me" |
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I did not know which way to go |
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So I did just what you told me, "Please hold me" |
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When I think about you now, it's not that my memory fails |
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There's just no need for graphic telling of all the details |
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Let's just say you taught me something that brought me from my shell |
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You gave to me that first sweet taste of the heaven here in this hell |
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Many happy things keep happening on my journey through this world |
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And in ways that I will never understand |
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I was much too late to be the first to make you a woman |
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But you were the one who made my mother's son a man |
