to make my father proud

to make my father proud

to make my mother smile

i need not conquer worlds

or fame

not set

the pace for style

if i can follow through

on

what they gave me as my tools

i'll find a way to sail my course

avoiding ships of fools

if i don't come up

number one

i'll stand not well apart

as one for numbered numbers

when knowing in my heart

i've done all to be done

to always do my best

by listening to me

myself

so he can do or else

(of without compromise

shall follow the feel of constant care)

in my eleventh hour

i'll be a man the way

to face whatever falls my way

prepared that are a shame

to just be called a part of god

for which i have been named

a man and a woman's youngest son

while growing

still a child

and that will make my father proud

and make my mother smile.