| Sitting, | |
| Cooking up a daydream about being | |
| somebody's auntie. | |
| Planning, | |
| living out of fantasies of having | |
| a child of your own. | |
| And if the child had his mother's eyes | |
| and his mother's nose, | |
| he's got the same dimpled smile | |
| as his grandad, | |
| the way he rolls his eyeballs | |
| when you call. | |
| He's all the things that make life beautiful. | |
| Talking, | |
| seeing how somebody's boy just made it, | |
| all by himself. | |
| Got married, | |
| wants himself an house and car, | |
| got settled. | |
| He's doing quite nicely. | |
| And the little baby boy got his mother's eyes, | |
| and her nose. | |
| He's got the same dimpled smile | |
| as his grandad, | |
| the way he rolls his eyeballs | |
| when you call. | |
| He's all the things that make life beautiful. | |
| And the child got every chance, | |
| of being somebody, | |
| for his mother and his father and his uncles and his aunts | |
| love him too. | |
| Can't understand why you always | |
| got something else to do, | |
| and why he insists on staying in that way, them all. | |
| But he's a man, he's not a little child | |
| anymore, | |
| He's got to live the way he feels the way he wants | |
| the way he knows he can. | |
| The people who look down | |
| at the way he moves around, | |
| and he grows, | |
| those are the one who made him want his life, them all. | |
| But he's a man, he's not a little child | |
| anymore, | |
| He's got to live the way he feels the way he wants | |
| the way he knows he can. | |
| The people who look down | |
| at the way he moves around, | |
| and he grows, | |
| those are the one who made him want his life, them all. |