Intro
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Verse
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If you want to try and step into another kind of shoe I’ll be right behind
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And he might be a little bit like me but more of you well I hope that as he grew
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What if she would maybe look like you so beautiful that I’d have two
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Well they’ll grow slower than the wind blows but faster as each day goes by
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And when they're old enough to run they'll walk away one day and I would have you back
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Until then I can share - I’ll wait for when there's time to spare but it always goes too fast
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You should be the first to know that all I need is you and you alone
Interlude
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Well I guess that probably if I knew then I'd finally understand when because “I told you so” became a
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reason. To know is too imposing, and life is what’s been chosen - but not by you and me
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And so then - we watch them come and go and quietly they grow into someone just like you
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And I know that I can only say so many times that I won't ever let you down
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until I show you
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And when they're old enough to run they'll walk away one day and I would have you back
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Until then I can share - I’ll wait for when there's time to spare but it always goes too fast
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And every time they run past me and straight to you I understand cause I would too
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But you should be the first to know that all I need is you and you alone
Outro
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