The Box - Randy Travis

[00:07.72]On the top shelf in the closet
[00:10.47]In the workshop where he spent his extra time
[00:16.4]Was a dust wooden box that I had never noticed till that time
[00:24.97]And we set on the table and carefully we opened up the top
[00:34.53]And stared into the memory
[00:38.97]Daddy kept inside the box
[00:42.97]There was a letter from mamma when she went out to Reno
[00:49.65]To help her sister out in 62
[00:55.47]And a flower from Hawaii when they went on vacation
[01:01.59]It was the first time that my Daddy ever flew
[01:07.65]And the pocket knife I gave to him on Fathers day
[01:13.78]Years ago I thought it had been lost
[01:19.28]We all thought his heart was made from solid rock
[01:26.03]But that was long before we found the box
[01:35.91]I guess we always knew it but I love you was hard for him to say
[01:43.91]Some men show it easy and some just never seem to find the way
[01:52.91]But that night I began to see the softer side of some I had lost
[02:01.97]I saw the love he kept inside the first time we opened up the box
[02:10.42]There was a picture that was taken when he and Mom were dating
[02:17.11]Standing by his 1944 and the faded leather Bible he got when he was baptised
[02:28.92]I guess no one understood him like the Lord
[02:35.44]And the poem that he had written about his wife and children
[02:41.19]The tender words he spoke were quite a shock
[02:46.56]We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
[02:53.31]But that was long before we found the box
[02:58.75]Yes that was long before we found the box