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

• 1982
• An Old Pair of Shoes
• Before You Kill Us All
• Better Class of Loser
• Diggin' up Bones
• Easy to Love You
• Forever & Ever Amen
• Gonna Walk That Line
• Good Intentions
• Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart
• He Walked on Water
• Heroes & Friends
• Honky Tonk Side of Town
• Honky-tonk Moon
• I Told You So
• I Won't Need You Anymore
• I'd Do It All Again With You
• If I Didn't Have You
• It's Just a Matter of Time
• Look Heart, No Hands
• Out of My Bones
• Point of Light
• Reasons I Cheat
• Send My Body Home on a Freight Train
• Smokin' The Hive
• Somewhere in My Broken Heart
• The Box
• The Hole
• The Storms of Life
• The Truth is Lyin' Next to You
• Too Gone, Too Long
• Walk Your Own Road
• Whisper My Name