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Two-ten in the morning
Your hand around my thumb
Trying to get your arm through a sleeve
Like I've never done it once
Two years took the memory
Of how small a body starts
How your neck needs both my hands
How a diaper gets this hard
You haven't learned a single word
There's nothing you can tell me
So I study every movement
Like there's something there to read
I wonder what comes easy
What the world will make you earn
What you'll carry from your brother
What you'll have to learn
You'll have me
Not a story
Not a name
Not a man you know from pictures
Or the things somebody saved
You'll have me
When the easy part runs out
I can't keep the hard away
But I can meet you where you are
Anything that comes for you
Comes through me first
I'm learning while I love you
What a father's meant to be
You won't have to wonder
You'll have me
Your mother and I came close
To never having this
Now your brother's down the hall
And you're breathing on my chest
I thought the second time around
I'd know just what to do
Turns out knowing how to hold one
Doesn't teach me how to hold you
Maybe that's the point of it
You don't arrive prepared
You just keep paying attention
And make sure that you're there
You don't need a man who made it
If he's never in the room
You need somebody you can interrupt
Who turns around for you
You'll have me
Not a story
Not a name
Not a man you know from pictures
Or the things somebody saved
You'll have me
When the easy part runs out
I can't keep the hard away
But I can meet you where you are
Anything that comes for you
Comes through me first
I'm learning while I love you
What a father's meant to be
You won't have to wonder
You'll have me
I know how easy it is
To think there's always time
One more thing that needs attention
One more minute passing by
So when you reach
I'll reach back
That's where I'll start
I don't need to know the answer
To know where you are
And someday when you don't reach
I'll still be close enough
No one taught me how to do this
Maybe showing up's enough
You'll have me
When the easy part runs out
I can't keep the hard away
But I can meet you where you are
You'll have me
I may never have the answers
I'm still learning what they mean
When you reach
I'll reach back
You'll have me
Your hand around my thumb
Trying to get your arm through a sleeve
Like I've never done it once
Two years took the memory
Of how small a body starts
How your neck needs both my hands
How a diaper gets this hard
You haven't learned a single word
There's nothing you can tell me
So I study every movement
Like there's something there to read
I wonder what comes easy
What the world will make you earn
What you'll carry from your brother
What you'll have to learn
You'll have me
Not a story
Not a name
Not a man you know from pictures
Or the things somebody saved
You'll have me
When the easy part runs out
I can't keep the hard away
But I can meet you where you are
Anything that comes for you
Comes through me first
I'm learning while I love you
What a father's meant to be
You won't have to wonder
You'll have me
Your mother and I came close
To never having this
Now your brother's down the hall
And you're breathing on my chest
I thought the second time around
I'd know just what to do
Turns out knowing how to hold one
Doesn't teach me how to hold you
Maybe that's the point of it
You don't arrive prepared
You just keep paying attention
And make sure that you're there
You don't need a man who made it
If he's never in the room
You need somebody you can interrupt
Who turns around for you
You'll have me
Not a story
Not a name
Not a man you know from pictures
Or the things somebody saved
You'll have me
When the easy part runs out
I can't keep the hard away
But I can meet you where you are
Anything that comes for you
Comes through me first
I'm learning while I love you
What a father's meant to be
You won't have to wonder
You'll have me
I know how easy it is
To think there's always time
One more thing that needs attention
One more minute passing by
So when you reach
I'll reach back
That's where I'll start
I don't need to know the answer
To know where you are
And someday when you don't reach
I'll still be close enough
No one taught me how to do this
Maybe showing up's enough
You'll have me
When the easy part runs out
I can't keep the hard away
But I can meet you where you are
You'll have me
I may never have the answers
I'm still learning what they mean
When you reach
I'll reach back
You'll have me