Little Tommy's waitin' for someone to see   That he's left his light on   His Mamma cries herself to sleep in front of the old T.V.   Since the man of the house is gone      And Tommy sits and dreams about how happy they will be   When Daddy comes back home   He doesn't know he never will come home   And he'll be one more child fathered on the phone      One more child growin' up half alone in a broken home      You see Tommy's Mom got married when she was seventeen   To a boy who was dark and tall   She was young and she was willin' and she kept the house clean   So he married her in the fall      They stuck it out five years before he finally went his way   Leavin' Tommy all confused   Daddy said he'd never go away   And now Tommy's gettin' more angry every day      Tell me who's gonna pay the defaulted loans on our broken homes      With so many of us giving up   When it's hard to give we just give up   And the kids wind up like prisoners of war   Well, I'm not saying I know how   But we've got to set it right somehow   Before we wind up paying even more      'Cause some of us get more than just alone   We get broken in our broken homes      Now Tommy's all grown up or at least he looks that way   The very image of his dear old Dad   He's got kids of his own - he's gonna raise them the right way   Be the father he never had      But somehow at year five his eyes keep lookin' towards the door   He's got to get out now   Or live and die in a domestic war   Soon he's one more father callin' on the phone      One more man more than less alone in a broken home      Now little Tommy's waitin' for someone to see   That he's left his light on......