I'll Tell it to You Softly

Sometimes, the choices we make can take us away from those we love

I’ll Tell it to You Softly

 

I don’t know how to tell you

And it’s been a while

I’m even scared to reach to you

Since I’ve lost my smile

I don’t know how to begin to say

You mean the world to me

When I find my time away from you

I know, it’s harder to see

And you don’t see my tears at night

Of some choices that I made

That took your world out of mine

The cards already played

I don’t want this pain for you

The way it hurts me inside

And how do I protect you in

The ways that I once tried

I’ll tell it to you softly

For the words are too much to bear

I don’t want my pain for you

From the days I can’t be there

I wish that I could tell you

There’d be some other way

Sometimes I learned a bit too late

And they take away our day

The only way to tell you

Is with the only hope I hold

That you won’t follow me in those steps

Into this world you’ve been showed

My life all but torn apart

And the hope I have is in you

And love leaves me only with hope

For the choices you will do

And what it is I’m feeling now

All in love for you each day

Is that you won’t follow me

In this walk that took me away

I don’t know how to reach to you

Any more than I can

Still, I need you to know

Because you are my little man

Just know how much I love you

And it hurts that I’m not there

I’m hoping I can show you

Some way, how much I care

I wish I knew to find the words

I’ve so much more to say

And how much more I miss you near

To me, in my every day

And a distance may lie between us

I’ll reach your heart to me

With prayer, I’ll ask God, you have everything

To be the best man you can be

And this is how I begin to show you

To me, you are my everything

And I’ll love you all I can

Through all life might bring

Don C