Can’t you see what I’ve become?
Just look at all the things I’ve done.
Still, I’m standing in your shadow
even after all this time.

It’s not the life you hoped I’d lead,
but I just couldn’t live your dreams.
This life chose me,
how could you be… so blind?

And my brothers were no different,
they each heard another call.
So why is it me
you ask to take the fall?

I’m not you!
I’ll never be!
What will it take to break you,
make you finally see?

This is my life!
It’s who I am!
And you made me, raised me
up to be this man.

I can’t follow in your footsteps,
but by your guide I’ll live my life,
and one day I’ll maybe shine
with my own light.

I might touch the hearts of millions,
though if I only reach but one…
I pray you’d say to them, with pride,
“Hey! That’s my son!”

But until then,
try father, please…
to find that space someplace within you
that still believes…

in dreams
and
me ~