Song Length |
4:06 |
Genre |
Country - Alternative, Country - Contemporary |
Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Duet Male/Female |
Mood |
Poignant |
Subject |
Lost Love, Armed Forces |
Language |
English |
| |
Lyrics
Daddy Makes Three Words & Music: Patti Lightstone
© 2002 Patti Lightstone
Dear sweetheart - have to write every day - it?s the only way to stay sane
and I love you - that?s what keeps me alive - and I?ve got to survive this pain
You are what I dream about eyes open or closed
I regret, before I left, I didn?t propose
and time is marching by - and I?m so far away - each night I think of you and then I pray
Just let me make it home - to have a family
a wife, and son or daughter just for me
and Daddy makes three
Dear diary - it?s no secret at all - that there?s pride before a fall
and I love him - though we?d only just met - can?t forget, yet can?t recall
I don?t have a photograph to set by my bed
Don?t have a way to know if you?re alive or dead
I know you?d be proud, if you could see your child - he looks like you,
especially when he smiles,
And every night we pray, God bless us each day
Thy will be done to bring you back to me
and Daddy makes three
Though you never got my letters - that I wrote you every day
they?re still lying in my bureau drawer
turning yellow with age - full of hope on each page, you see
and Daddy makes three
Dear Mother - I got leave for a day - and I got to go in town
and I found it - that old honky tonk?s still there - I went in to look around
Talked to the barkeep, it was family owned and run
Told him my story, he seemed a little stunned
He asked me to wait - brought his mama out in tears
She clutched a box of letters she?d been saving all these years
Now I have the letters that my Daddy wrote my Mom
a part of me is finally complete
and all of his sweet words, like petals on a flower
forget-me-nots, don?t you see
and Daddy makes three