I got sent home from school one day with a shiner on my eye
Fightin' was against the rules and it didn't matter why
When dad got home
I told that story just like I'd rehearsed
Then stood there on those tremblin' knees and waitin' for the worst
And he said...
Let me tell you a secret about a father's love
A secret that my daddy said was just between us
He said daddies don't just love their children every now and then
It's a love without end, amen
It's a love without end, amen
When I became a father in the spring of eighty one
There was no doubt that stubborn boy was just like my father's son
And when I thought my patience had been tested to the end
I took my daddy's secret and passed it on to him
I said...
Let me tell you a secret about a father's love
A secret that my daddy said was just between us
He said daddies don't just love their children every now and then
It's a love without end, amen
It's a love without end, amen
Last night
I dreamed I'd died and stood outside those pearly gates
When suddenly
I realized there must be some mistake
If they know half the things
I've done, they'll never let me in
Then somewhere from the other side,
I heard these words again
And they said...
Let me tell you a secret about a father's love
A secret that my daddy said was just between us
He said daddies don't just love their children every now and then
It's a love without end, amen
It's a love without end, amen