Closer Than Ever - Fathers of Fathers Lyrics

Off-Broadway Musical
Closer Than Ever - Fathers of Fathers Lyrics

MAN 1:
Hey billy, my baby
Hey kid, look at me
It's clear you've got your mother's eyes
But who do they see?
The nurse just called me father
Well hell, I guess that's what i am
But what makes her thing I'm a family man

Those fathers of fathers, fathers of mothers
How can you know what it's worth.
For all my aspiration
Are you to be the indication
That I walked the face of this earth

MAN 3:
My children, I miss you
How much you can't know
I laughed with you, I cried with you
Helped each of you grow
I kissed you ev'ry bedtime
Your laughter woke me every dawn
Then one day I woke and you'd grown and gone

MAN 1 & 3:
And fathers of fathers, fathers of mothers
Strange how kids measure your worth
There here and then they scatter
And in some way they make it matter
That i walked the face of this earth

MAN 2:
Hey fathers, I love you
I pray you'll pull through
You cared for me, it's my turn now
To take care of you
I've tried to show my children
The kid of strength you showed to me
I feel such a longing to be a son
Instead now i'm one of those

ALL:
Fathers of fathers, fathers of mothers
What man can say what it's worth
This commonest of pleasures
Why should it be a thing that measures
That I walked the face of the earth

Closer Than Ever the Musical Lyrics

Doors
She Loves Me Not
You Wanna Be My Friend
What Am I Doing?
The Bear, The Tiger, The Hamster
And the Mole
Miss Byrd
One of the Good Guys
There's Nothing Like It
Life Story
Next Time/I Wouldn t Go Back
Three Friends
Fandango
There
Patterns
Another Wedding Song
If I Sing
Back On Base
The March of Time
Fathers of Fathers
It s Never That Easy/I ve Been Here Before
Closer Than Ever