Like She Is

I was cooking in the kitchen She was watching our tv It was a Wednesday When they called me There's been an accident You better come quickly Put her in the backseat And drove like I had wings Policeman stopped us From running on the runway Her daddy didn't make it Two hearts with a hard break I didn't get there In enough time For her to say goodbye And as I gave her To her mother I vowed the rest of my life To always pick up the phone, be a friend Promise her I'll never leave her like he did Yeah, she isn't my daughter But I love her like she is Now we're going on twelve years She's twenty-four with a boyfriend I got myself a husband But that don't change nothing She's painting her story And I'm writing mine We'll never forget, what happened that night I didn't get there In enough time For her to say goodbye And as I gave her To her mother I vowed the rest of my life To always pick up the phone, be a friend Promise her I'll never leave her like he did Yeah, she isn't my daughter But I love her like she is Sometimes there's people Who might not be blood But that don't change a damn thing If it's love then it's love I didn't get there In enough time For her to say goodbye And as I gave her To her mother I vowed the rest of my life To always pick up the phone, be a friend Promise her I'll never leave her like he did But she isn't my daughter But I love her like she is Yeah, I love her like she is