Randy Travis - The Box Lyrics

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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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lyrics submitted by Hank Kimble