(Claude Francois - Jean Pierre Bourtayre - Bill Martin - Phil Coulter)
You're sleeping son, I know
But, really, this can't wait
I wanted to explain
Before it gets too late
For your mother and me
Love has finally died
This is no happy home
But God knows how I've tried

Because you're all I have, my boy
You are my life, my pride, my joy
And if I stay, I stay because of you, my boy

I know it's hard to understand
Why did we ever start?
We're more like strangers now
Each acting out a part
I have laughed, I have cried
I have lost every game
Taken all I can take
But I'll stay just the same

Because you're all I have, my boy
You are my life, my pride, my joy
And if I stay, I stay because of you, my boy
Sleep on, you haven't heard a word

Perhaps it's just as well
Why spoil your little dreams
Why put you through the hell
Life is no fairytale
As one day you will know
But now you're just a child
I'll stay her and watch you grow

Because you're all I have, my boy
You are my life, my pride, my joy
And if I stay, I stay because of you, my boy

Why are you growin' up so fast
My boy?
Oh, you'd better take your time.
Why are you growin' up so fast
My son?

Almost time to live your dream
My boy.
Oh, you'd better take your time.
Almost time to make some plans
My son.

Vacation gone, school is out,
Summer ends year in year out.

Oh, you'd better take your time
My boy.
I thought we had just begun.
Why are you growin' up so fast
My son?

Vacation gone, school is out,
Summer ends year in year out.

Why are you growin' up so fast
My boy?

Why are you growin' up so fast
My son?

First time I saw my son, I knew I was in love
Because he was the gift I got from somewhere up above
O wow, o yes, o joy, so joy right here in my arms
He looks at me, I can see he's showing all his charms
Can't remember what I do before I saw his face
But now he's here and I can feel his amazing grace

Watching him play, somehow reminds me of myself
Once upon a different time when I was someone else
O me, o my, I feel so high every single day
O yes, o lay, my lord yea yea watching my son play
First time he'd walk detours I step in to a chance
I took his hand and then we start it likes dance
The first dance was so fine that I never will forget
He held my hand so tightly that I had start dancing yet

My love, my boy, my son, my joy always keep your glow
And know that love will be with you wherever you may go
And if something should fall apart somewhere down the line
Just tell me all about it and I will make it fine

I'd travel many roads before but somehow they were wrong
And sometime we find that life is just a simple song
Even the saddest songs ever human face
I will always keep my son in love's magic place

Strange how soon the party's over
I should know by now

My hand no longer guides your footsteps
Now you guide your own

And all that's left is the sound of your voice
And your face as you were on the screen

Hush, don't you cry
There'll be no pain
The bad wolf is gone
He'll have no part of our game

All too soon the dream world's fading
Says farewell

Since my boy became a man

Don't make it too soon
My small boy

Why are you growin' up so fast
My boy?
Oh, you'd better take your time.
Why are you growin' up so fast
My son?

Almost time to live your dream
My boy.
Oh, you'd better take your time.
Almost time to make some plans
My son.

Vacation gone, school is out,
Summer ends year in year out.

Oh, you'd better take your time
My boy.
I thought we had just begun.
Why are you growin' up so fast
My son?

Vacation gone, school is out,
Summer ends year in year out.

Why are you growin' up so fast
My boy?

Why are you growin' up so fast
My son?

I'm his love and not his mother
Why you're staring at each other?
What's your problem?
I'm not his keeper, I'm his teacher
Oh, and it goes deeper
What's your problem?
[Pre-Chorus]
I can't control
these feelings I have inside
I have to let go, let go of my pride
Age is a number,
don't steal my thunder
Can't love no other, other, other
[Chorus]
You're my boy,
Keepin your inside soul, they don't see it
Just my boy
Keepin your inside soul, they don't see that
Just my boy
Keepin your inside soul, they don't see that
Just my boy, my boy
My boy
Where's the blame?
Where's the shame
Where just two hearts come together?
What's your problem?
He's not a boy, not a toy
He's man enough to understand
What's your problem?