Lately I've been spendin'   Lots of time with my kid   Tellin' him stories   About the things that we did      When we were a family   Long time ago   I've answered his questions   Till I'm blue in the face      Wish all that hurt in him   I could erase   But I tell him the truth   'Cause he ain't to young to know      Single father   Part time mother   When I'm not one   Then I'm the other      And you used to be   My full time lover   Now I'm a single father   And a part time mother      I spend every minute   I can with my boy   There's no doubt about it   He's my pride and joy      Someday he will grow up   And I won't have him no more   Some things I just find   Too hard to explain      So we go to McDonalds   Or I buy him a train   And we put it together   On the living room floor      Such is the life   Of a single father   He says daddy explain   If it's not too much bother      While it's just you and me   Living here in this home   I don't understand it   And neither does he      Why there's just two   When there should be three of us   Sharing this moment   Lord, I feel so alone      Single father   Part time mother   When I'm not one   Then I'm the other      And you used to be   My full time lover   Now I'm a single father   And a part time mother      And you used to be   My full time lover   Now I'm a single father   And a part time mother      Now I'm a single father   And a part time mother