I build a fence around you in a father's way
I try to feel what 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 feed you and I do what's right
I try to find the words that I'll say to you
when you come home tonight
and if so
how hard will we cry before our sound
fades away

one day when the fence is not so high
the road you took
how far will you go
how high will you climb
and when all in life's unfair
are you strong enough to find another way
find another way
find 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

one day when the fence is not so high
the road you took
how far will you go
how high will you climb
and when all in life's unfair
are you strong enough to find another way
find another way
find another 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