Before You Go

Before You Go

by Gregg Metcalf

February 12, 2002 & May 20, 2015

Chorus:

Before you go

I want you to know

How much you have meant to me

You’re more than a dad

Best friend I’ve had

You’re what a dad should be

Got the phone call

In the middle of the night

It's the one that says

Somethings not right

Mom was on the other end

Her voice was filled with fear

What she was trying to say

I did not want to hear

It was dad and it was bad

His heart was giving way

Come home right now

I need you son please pray

A hundred things were

Running through my head

I couldn’t think of anything

Except the words she had said

All I could think to say,

Before you go

I want you to know

How much you have meant to me

You’re more than a dad

Best friend I’ve had

You’re what a dad should be

I got in my car and headed home

Just as fast as I could drive

Found him lying there in the bed

Thank God he was still alive

With the tubes and all the lines

He tried to tell me he was OK

The good Lord spared him this time

He’ll be my dad for another day

And all I could say

Before you go

I want you to know

How much you have meant to me

You’re more than a dad

Best friend I’ve had

You’re what a dad should be

There’s nothing else I can say

Before you go

I want you to know

How much you have meant to me

You’re more than a dad

Best friend I’ve had

You’re what a dad should be

Please note:  my father did have a heart-attack in 2002. Fortunately as severe as it was he was able by the grace of God to make a full recovery. I tried to write this song for him back in 2002. I just couldn’t write it. The idea was there but I couldn’t write or say what I wanted to say. I put this on the shelf. 

Today, I took the idea and title out and played with it. This still doesn’t say what I want to say and since it wrote itself in less than 4 minutes I just let the words flow as they wanted to flow. This for my dad, and before he goes I want him to know how much I love him.