Thursday, May 21, 2015

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.

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