You said you couldn’t keep me when you were seventeen   Too young to be a father  You kissed my hand and took your leave   And you taught me how to make believe    Make believe I was a gift to you from heaven  Make believe that you would take me as your own  Make believe that you would set the mark of what a man should be  You taught me how to make believe    And now that I’ve grown older  I long for us to meet  I have a million questions  But most of all I want to see   If all of it was make believe    Another year has come and gone  I am living with your family  And I feel right at home   In the place where I always wanted to be    I’m going out this evening  I check the mirror twice  You stop me on the staircase  You kiss my hand and say that I look beautiful tonight    And I believe I was a gift to you from heaven  And I believe that you would take me as your own  I believe that you set the mark of what a man should be   Now I don’t have to make believe