~~THE BOX~~





by Randy Travis


The Box

On the top shelf in the closet,
In the workshop where he spent his extra time
Was a dust wooden box that I had never noticed
till that time
And we set on the table and carefully, we opened
up the top
And stared into the memory
Daddy kept inside the box


There was a letter from mamma, when she went out
to Reno
To help her sister out in 62
And a flower from Hawaii, when they went on
vacation
It was the first time that my Daddy ever flew


And the pocket knife I gave to him on Fathers day
Years ago, I thought it had been lost
We all thought his heart was made from solid rock
But that was long before we found the box


I guess we always knew it_but "I love you" was
hard for him to say
Some men show it easy and some just never seem to
find the way
But that night I began to see the softer side of
some I had lost
I saw the love he kept inside the first time we
opened up the box


There was a picture that was taken,when he and Mom
were dating Standing by his 1944, and the faded leather Bible,
he got when he was baptised
I guess no one understood him like the Lord


And the poem that he had written, about his wife
and children
The tender words he spoke were quite a shock


We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
But that was long before we found the box
Yes that was long before we found the box


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