The Box Lyrics - Randy Travis

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 

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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 

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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