Hey mom I know that it's late, hope I didn't wake you    Yeah, everything is O.K., just needed to talk to you    Today I had one of those days    But I didn't call to complain    Just to say everything that I didn't for all of those years    You were a taxicab driver, a nurse and a maid    A waitress, a cook and a shoulder to lay    My head on to cry on, when nothing was going my way    You knew every answer without cracking a book    And I took for granted that I had it so good    And I'm sorry it's taken me so long to say    Thank you I love you    Twenty years late       It's funny how time passing by can change your perspective    A little while out on your own can sure make you think    I don't know how you did it    No I can't find one spare minute    The days run together but I don't remember you    Ever letting us down       You were the judge and the jury when I did wrong    Been my biggest fan from my very first song    The gas in the engine that always kept me moving on    A seamstress a counselor and the one referee    That could cold stop a fight between my brother and me    And I'm sorry it's taken me so long to say    Thank you I love you    Twenty years late       I'll let you go now    But I hope that you know now how I feel    Thank you for making me the man I've become    I love you and I will always be your son    Mom that's all I called to say    Twenty years late