A Line Across His Hand | Down Syndrome WA

A Line Across His Hand

The day my son was born the sun shone in the sky

My life would change forever and here's the reason why

You see my son is different, things did not go as we planned

For my son was born with a line across his hand

A line across his hand
A line across his hand

Things did not go as we planned

Because of the line across his hand

They said that he would be slow to learn and never read or write

But when he took his first steps it was a special night

They said he'd never be a man and always be a burden

But he'd show them wrong, it was the one thing I was certain

A line across his hand

When his hand's held in mine

I can't see that line across his hand

Oh how very hard it was to learn to tie his shoe

There were days we thought it was something he'd never ever do

But then one day he made the bow up right and neat

Oh, his life ain't always easy but his victories are sweet

A line across his hand

That shoelace didn't care

There was a line across his hand

I always dreamed we'd play with a baseball and a bat

But in our life together we jog the High School track

There are many things that he can do and things that he can not

He's much more than the sum total of the syndrome that he's got

A line across his hand

Don't judge who he is by

That line across his hand

If I had the power to change his life I'm not sure what I'd do

But his life has been a blessing 'tho I've shed a tear or two

I love my son more than I believed all those years ago

I guess in this life we do reap what we do sow

A line across his hand

Doesn't change the love you feel inside

That line across his hand

Now my son is grown and holds a job and has a lady friend

He is proud and kind this message I will send

A line across his hand

They were wrong, I know that now

This boy of mine's a man