I build a fence around you in a father’s way
I try to feel what it is your going through
’cause I’ve played many ways
When you grow how much will it take to slow you down half the way
Do my best to please you and I do what’s right
I try to find each word that I’ll say to you
When you come home tonight
And if so, how hard will we cry before our sound fades away
Then one day when the fence is not so high
The road you took
And how far will you go
And how high will you climb
And when all in life’s unfair
Are you strong enough to find another way
Another way
Another way
A father’s way
I build a fence around you in a father’s way
Just like the one who used to preach to me
Now I’ve become that way
But you know how soft now the hand that used to strike to the heart
I want you to know, and one day when the fence is not so high
The road you took
And how far will you go
And how high will you climb
And when all in life’s unfair
Are you strong enough to find another way
Another way
A father’s way
Find another way
Find another way
A father’s way
There’s no way
You will stay
There’s no way
I know you
There’s no way
You will stay
There’s no way
I know you
There’s no way
That your gonna stay
There’s no way
I build a fence around you in a father’s way