No Such Thing As Divorce

Words & Music by Bob Bennett

© 1991 Bright Avenue Songs
P.O. Box 1578
Cypress, CA 90630-6578
Reprinted/Posted by Permission
All Rights Reserved

Oh my dear children
How I love you with my life
And that will never change
Though your mom is not my wife
It's true I promised you
That this would never come to be
Please forgive me

When people fall in love
They never see the day
When one will ask the other
To pack up and move away
And I know that I have told you
I am sorry for my part
There's nothing I can do now
But to tell you from my heart

  There is no such thing as divorce
  Between a father and his son
  Between a daddy and his daughter
  There's no such thing as divorce
  No matter what has happened
  No matter what will be
    (There's no power that can make us
     Anything but family)
  There is no such thing as divorce
  Between you and me

I know that sometimes
You are worried I will go
And at first I felt like running
But now you need to know
That when I looked down deep inside me
It did not take long to see
That, little ones, you are
The most important thing to me

  Sometimes I cry over
  The things I can't undo
  And the words I never
  Should have said in front of you
  But I pray the good
  Will somehow overcome the bad
  And where I failed as a husband
  I'll succeed as your dad

Oh my dear children
As you grow so I will pray
That I will always listen
To the things you'll need to say
For I will always be your daddy
I will answer when you call
And I will ask the Lord of heaven
To be a father to us all