ฟังเพลงYou Had to Be There

You Had To Be There - Kenny Rogers

He sat down, picked up the phone

Said Boy, I'm your old man

He touched the glass between the two

As if to shake his hand

The boy, he didn't budge

Not even so much as a blink.

The man said Oh come on, boy

Better late than never, don't you think?

He said I read it in the paper,

Can't believe your twenty-one.

And I can't believe some son of mine

Could do the things I hear you've done.

He went on like some big hero

Who flew in to save the day.

And the boy said If you're here

To steer me right, man, it's too late.

You had to be there

And I'm talking from day one.

That's the only time a man

Should talk through glass to his new son

And you'd have to backgo

And teach me how when I was nine

Cause my momma couldn't throw a ball

Even if she had the time.

But I shoulda been learnin' how to fish

Instead of learnin' how to smoke.

I bet if you'd whooped my tail

I'd never thought it was a joke.

He said sometimes the will for doin' wrong

Is way too strong for any momma's prayers.

You had to be there.

The man said Boy I'm sorry

That you hate me like you do.

The boy said Dry it up man.

We ain't makin' this 'bout you.

It's 'bout a teenage girl against the world

Who was left there high and dry.

About a kid who might've stood .

A whole lot better shot at life.

But you had to be there

And I'm talkin from day one.

That's the only time a man

Should talk through glass to new his son

And you'd have to go back

And teach me how when I was nine

Cause my momma couldn't throw a ball

Even if she had the time.

I shoulda been learnin' how to fish

Instead of learnin' how to smoke.

I bet if you'd whooped my tail

I'd never thought it was a joke.

He said sometimes the will for doin' wrong

Is way too strong for any momma's prayers.

You had to be there.

The boy stood up, hung phoneup the

He said They say I'm out of time.

And it hit the man, right then and there

My God, son, so am I.