Keb' Mo' - Color Him Father lyrics

There's a man at my house he's so big and strong He goes to work each day, stays all day long He comes home each night looking tired and beat He sits down at the dinner table and has a bite to eat Never a frown always a smile When he says to me how's my child I've been studying hard all day in school Tryin' to understand the golden rule Think I'll color this man father I think I'll color him love Said I'm gonna color him father I think I'll color the man love, yes I will He says education is the thing if you wanna compete Because without it son, life ain't very sweet I love this man I don't know why Except I'll need his strength till the day that I die My mother loves him and I can tell By the way she looks at him when he holds my little sister Nell I heard her say just the other day That if it hadn't been for him she wouldn't have found her way My real old man he got k**ed in the war And she knows she and seven kids couldn't of got very far She said she thought that she could never love again And then there he stood with that big wide grin He married my mother and he took us in And now we belong to the man with that big wide grin Think I'll color this man father I think I'll color him love Said I'm gonna color him father