[Verse 1]
Did he need a stronger hand?
Did he need a lighter touch?
Was I soft or was I tough?
Did I give enough?
Did I give too much?
At the moment that he needed me, did I ever turn away?
Would I be there when he called, if he walked into my life today?

[Verse 2]
Were his days a little dull?
Were his nights a little wild?
Did I overstate my plan?
Did I stress the man and forget the child?
And there must have been a million things that my heart forgot to say
Would I think of one or two if he walked into my life today?

[Bridge]
Should I blame the times I pampered him
Or blame the times I bossed him?
What a shame, I never really found the boy before I lost him

[Verse 3]
Were the years a little fast?
Was his world a little free?
Was there too much of a crowd or too lush and loud?
Or not enough me?
[Outro]
Though I'll ask myself my whole life long
What went wrong along the way
Would I make the same mistakes
If he walked into my life today?