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Dan Seals
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His old hands were brown
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from the varnish and the stain
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And I had come to talk
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in my youth and in my pain
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I told him that I was not
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the man I want to be
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I waited to see what he would say
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But he just kept on working
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as if I wasn't there
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The sweat on his face
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and dust in his hair
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He paused for a moment
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when I'd been there for a while
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He wiped his brow - I thought I saw him smile
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(Chorus)
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He just said , "Wood,
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From the earth beneath our feet there grows a tree
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And we can take it, shape it, to what's it's meant to be
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The stronger the fiber, the better for the good
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Son, I believe that men are just like wood."
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I handed him a timber
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and he laid it on the bench
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I watched the love and care he took
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to measure every inch
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the work it got harder
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when he cut across the grain
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but he just put more shoulder to the plane
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I sat there beside him
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as he carved out every line
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He made a thing of beauty
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from a rough 'ol piece of pine
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He seem to have the vision
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of what the end would be
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I felt as if some pieces had been taken out of me
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(repeat chorus)
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I left a little taller
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wiser, and free
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I learned the use of tools
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for the carpenter in me
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I don't have all the answers
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but one thing I have have found
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We are the choices that we make
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when the chips are down, wood.
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He said, "The stronger the fiber, the better for the good
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Son, I believe that men are just like wood."
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Just like wood.
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