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 '81

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

You see 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