... child, "when you gave me the order to grow up." The middle lines show the present "you baby, now I'm the real boy wonder." This is effective because this shows the father son relationship between them from the past, when Kid had suffered to the present where he has learnt from the mistakes in his life. This structure is similar to Before You Were Mine as it is also structured in a chronological way. The mother's life has been explored this way in each verse. Firstly, the mother's childhood has been mentioned, "Your polka-dot dress blows round your legs." Then in the second verse, the mother is an older dating teenager who falls in love "in the ballroom...I knew you would dance like that." Finally, the last verse describes her as a mother "...You'd teach me the steps on the way home from Mass." Each verse is like snap shots which ...

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