He is not old enough to have his own car thus needing to borrow his dad’s

“College” shows that the singer’s son has grown up very fats and they do not have a very good relationship as the father is always busy and he has no time for his son

His son is already ten and the singer has not spent enough time with his son. “Thanks for the ball” suggests that the singer gave his son a ball for his tenth birthday but didn’t even want to play with him as he was “busy with work”.

The son is now too busy to spend time with his father. THE TABLES HAVE TURNED. I feel sad and pitiful for the singer as he is probably full of regret and wishes to turn back time so he could have spent more time with his son. If he had built a better relationship with his son, he would not have wanted to turn back time. Thus we can now see that "I'm gonna be like you, Dad You know I'm gonna be like you" has a negative connotation as the son is now neglecting his father

The son asking the father when he is coming home disheartens me as a young child should always have his father beside him, supporting him through his growing stages.

“Little boy blue”and “the man on the moon”are both childhood poems and they describe the relationship between the father and son. Little Boy Blue describes the son, while the Man in the Moon is the distant dad. There is visual imagery here as “little boy blue and the man on the moon” can also be interpreted as “little boy blue” is the earth and that represents the singer’s son while “the man on the moon” could be the moon itself. Showing that they have a relationship but a very distant one.

The singer’s child likely did not get many chances to see or communicate with his father as he was always away busy doing he job. I feel pity, compassion and sympathy for the singer’s child as he did not get to have a good or even close relationship with his very own father.

The singer had to pay taxes and other bills like electricity like every one else suggesting he had a job.

I see both positive and negative interpretations here here as this sentence can be interpreted both ways. If this is seen as positive connotation I feel happy as the singer’s son wants to be hardworking like his father. But this also has a negative connotation as the son may be following in his father’s footsteps and neglect his father when he is older.

The singer likely had to catch planes to other countries suggesting to us that he did it have a lot of time to spend with his child and family.

This line refers to the singer’s child being born into the world and the singer and the child having a father and son relationship which is mentioned in the next few lines of the song as the singer uses the pronoun ‘he’.

This part is repeated but it is telling the listeners that the father and the son has a very distant and unhealthy relationship as the son is behaving exactly how his father was to him before he realised he was spending to little time with his son.

This shows that the singer takes more importance in work rather than playing with his son on his birthday with the birthday gift that he gave.

The singer’s son now has a family and a job thus he has too many things on his hands will not be able to go see his dad

I feel like this could be sarcasm as the son doesn’t really want to see his dad and even if he had time he would not make the time to go visit his dad as he is treating his dad how his dad treated him in the past.

“If you don’t mind” suggests that the singer knows that he might face rejection from his son as he is starting to neglect his father.

The singer has now retired as has a lot of free time on his hands, but he cannot spend time with his son as he has moved away and can no longer see his dad as frequently.

Now instead of the son asking the father it is the father asking the son.

The singer is finally showing some change in character and coming to his senses that he has not spent enough time with his son.

There is repetition here and it is used to tell the listener that the boy is assuring us that he will be like his father and follow in his footsteps.

From “the usual way” it tells me that the singers son was born without any complications and was a healthy baby.