I Wonder

Dad says it's striking
 How I look like you
 And how we share the same eyes
 Yes, he swears I'm just a smaller
 form of you
 But brittle bones and a wisp of white hair
 Are all I see in that old rocking chair
 Tell me, how long have you been around?
 And how long 'til you're underground?
 Tell me, how can a son be a father,
 A mother a daughter,
 And I be a man someday?
 Well, I wonder,
 Yes I do, I really wonder
 Could I belong to someone so old, who
 Can only speak in whispers
 And who cannot hear a single word I say
 You're a man with a quivering hand
 How we're connected
 I just can't understand
 (Chorus)
 But when I think of
 how you smile
 And the way you look at me
 It isn't hard to recognize
 That you belong to me,
 that you're a part of me
 Tell me, how can a son be a father,
 A mother a daughter,
 And I be a man someday?
 Well, I wonder,
 Yes I do, I really wonder