It Takes a Man

She locked her fingers and bowed her head

She said I'm late and I'm really scared

Now you can go but I hope you stay

I'm gonna keep it either way

In my daddy's el camino

In her driveway in the rain

Staring through that windshield

I could see my future change

And heart hit like a hammer

And my thoughts were running wild

Any fool can make a baby

But it take s a man to raise a child

I laid my head down on the wheel

She said "I know, I know it don't seem real"

She closed her eyes but the tears flowed through

She said "don't hate me for loving you"

In my daddy's el camino

In her driveway in the rain

Staring through that windshield

I could see my future change

And heart hit like a hammer

And my thoughts were running wild

Any fool can make a baby

But it take s a man to raise a child

Oh, I could not reassure her

I couldn't say what I had planned

Couldn't put three words together

So I just took her hand

In my daddy's el camino

In her driveway in the rain

Staring through that windshield

I could see my future change

And heart hit like a hammer

And my thoughts were running wild

Any fool can make a baby

But it take s a man to raise a child