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./
Chorus 1: 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.//
Chorus 1: 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.//
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./
Chorus 2: 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.//
