But I couldn’t even tie them up.
No matter how big and tall I grow; I was always looking up to you.

You show me that I was just a ‘diamond in the rough’.

You helped me to grow into the man that I’ve become.
We’ve been down,
we’ve been up.
I hope I made you proud enough.
You make it look easy, even when I’m hard to love.

When I dropped out of school, you told me that my time was up.
I was a ‘rebel with a cause’
Just didn’t know what it was.
So I waited but I jumped the barricade.
You said you did the same thing at my age.

You show me that I was just a ‘diamond in the rough’.
You helped me to grow into the man that I’ve become.

We’ve been down,
we’ve been up.
I hope I made you proud enough.
You make it look easy, even when I’m hard to love.

We’ve been down,
we’ve been up.
I hope I made you proud enough.
You make it look easy, even when I’m hard to love.