Wayne Watson - Turning Into Dad lyrics

I guess I figured he would live forever That I'd always have a place to turn A shoulder I could always lean on And a teacher for those lessons yet unlearned But good fathers too are only mortal Yeah, they long to rest in Jesus' arms They want to walk the golden streets of heaven When the vanities of earth have lost their charm So, I will treasure the high And the finer things within him And I know as he would have it I will lay aside the bad Of all the things That I could still become I could do a whole lot worse Than turning into dad It was early on a springtime morning The small hours of the sixteenth day I was shaken from my fitful sleeping In the not-so-very-merry month of May I cannot explain it, I just knew it in my heart That my hero had breathed his last and said goodbye We are flesh and we are spirit And it's appointed to us Once to really live, and once to die So, I will treasure the high And the finer things within him And I know as he would have it I will lay aside the bad Of all the things That I could still become I could do a whole lot worse Than turning into dad I could do a whole lot worse Than turning into dad