[Verse 1] We'd pack the car each summer for the Irish Hills without fail The KOA, a tent, a campfire, and a Lake Wobegon tale I'd sip your Coke gone warm and flat that sat out half the night Your secretary's coffee, mixed with cocoa, my guilty delight [Verse 2] You read me down to sleep with James and his enormous peach The Mouse and the Motorcycle, cherished nights within my reach We bent above the home computer — magic, new and bright And watched you fly to everywhere; I envied you that flight [Chorus] You're a nerd who got lucky — you married an artist way out of your league I got your head full of circuits, and from her, the make-believe The most generous man I've ever known — too giving, by half And the world gave you a page all your own... but they couldn't fit you in a paragraph [Verse 3] You took us skiing Shanty Creek, and Kitchener come the thaw To Michigan football Saturdays — the only game I'd watch at all Your colleagues ran a betting pool and let a kid play along I won both times by guessing blind, and then they moved me on A coin flip doesn't know the score — pure chance, and nothing more First real lesson that I had in what statistics are for [Verse 4] We played extras in Die Harder, mostly waiting out the night In a cold and drafty hangar, you with your King awaiting that flight And you took us all at Trivial Pursuit — you never even tried The smartest man in any room, and never once with pride [Bridge] You found your proof of God in physics — ice that rises, will not sink "If it sank, the lakes would kill us; Someone built it, don't you think?" Your office was a glorious wreck, your back seat full of Ding Dong foil But you knew where everything lived — until I went and spoiled Your whole system for a video, and it took Mom to make you say That it hurt You hated conflict, Dad And I turned out that way [Chorus] You're a nerd who got lucky — you married an artist way out of your league I got your head full of circuits, and from her, the make-believe The most generous man I've ever known — too giving, by half And the world gave you a page all your own... but they couldn't fit you in a paragraph [Outro] Happy Father's Day, you lucky nerd — here's all they left untold The cocoa and the Coke gone flat, and a love that won't grow old You're the best of what I'm made from — they didn't quite break that mold
