The Box

[00:07.15] On the top shelf in the closet,
[00:09.79] In the workshop where he spent his extra time
[00:15.52] Was a dust wooden box that I had never noticed till that time
[00:24.78] And we set on the table and carefully, we opened up the top
[00:33.53] And stared into the memory
[00:37.98] Daddy kept inside the box
[00:42.35] There was a letter from mamma, when she went out to Reno
[00:49.03] To help her sister out in 62
[00:54.87] And a flower from Hawaii, when they went on vacation
[01:00.67] It was the first time that my Daddy ever flew
[01:06.95] And the pocket knife I gave to him on Fathers day
[01:13.27] Years ago, I thought it had been lost
[01:19.07] We all thought his heart was made from solid rock
[01:25.25] But that was long before we found the box
[01:34.56] I guess we always knew it but "I love you" was hard for him to say
[01:43.42] Some men show it easy and some just never seem to find the way
[01:52.29] But that night I began to see the softer side of some I had lost
[02:01.93] I saw the love he kept inside the first time we opened up the box
[02:10.46] There was a picture that was taken, when he and Mom were dating
[02:16.74] Standing by his 1944, and the faded leather Bible, he got when he was baptised
[02:28.58] I guess no one understood him like the Lord
[02:34.33] And the poem that he had written, about his wife and children
[02:41.22] The tender words he spoke were quite a shock
[02:46.74] We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
[02:52.70] But that was long before we found the box
[02:58.68] Yes that was long before we found the box
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