My oldest son is going into the Air Force September 6th, I am having a farewell dinner for him on the 4th and I will sing this to him at the dinner and try not to cry.❤️ Please keep him in your prayers if you don’t mind.❤️
Hi Jennifer Hope it went well. How did you hold up? I plan to sing this at my son's wedding or engagement party..whenever that will be..hopefully in 5 plus years so I can practise and not cry through the song..will adapt the words. Will look for a voice coach as my voice has deepened as I've got older. Blessings
@@monicabrown6424 🤣🤣🤣 I started strong but I ended up crying the rest of the song out. I think had I not looked at him the whole time while singing I would have made it without crying but I was and am so proud of him I couldn’t look away. Just practice now and if you cry just let it out, we are human and we are moms proud of our babies. ❤️
My mom and dad sang this to me as a baby and now that I'm sitting in a hospital with my mom in critical condition, I'm singing it to her! I love you mom, you are the bestest!
Wow😥😥🤔🤔🤔🤔😍😍😍 my mom always sung this song to me my mom a mother of 9 and now me just turned 40, 4 kids, and 1 grandson all my kids are graduates and my last 2 which are twins leave for national guard September 14th. Of all every thing this world has us in I still thank God and I'll still take all of any pain still for my babies. A mothers job is never done!!! We're moms for life we built like Ford trucks!!!!🎯
I was thinking bout my son he is 24. Been through some ups & downs but today he called just to talk about his women issues. Am sooo overjoyed in tears happy
I cry every time this song is played. ❤ It took me ten years to conceive my son. I've always felt like I had a special promise to keep to God for letting me have him.
I am in tears my 33 year old daughter with juvenile diabetes and wanting a child of her own and willing to give her life to make it happen after escaping death so many times. and my 19 year old granddaughter who just will not listen.
Back in 1999, my father spent months trying to pick the PERFECT song for our father-daughter wedding dance. Mere HOURS before we left for the church, he finally came to me with a smile, saying “I got it!” like it had been in the back of his mind all along and was just that simple. Even though a guy was singing (and his version had come first) , as soon as I heard those first three words, I just held up a hand and tried not to mess up my makeup! What he didn’t realize was that back in college, I had heard THIS version and always thought it’d be the one I’d choose for MY child when they got married. I had forgotten all about it until that VERY PERFECT moment. Like father, like daughter! 🥹🥰
@Highly Favored You know I always wondered if Whitney sold her soul?! Because 1. Her death was somewhat out of the blue and mysterious, same with her daughter. And 2. It wasn’t likely a talented black girl beautiful or not could just make it in the industry so hugely but maybe I’m being bias.
This song was sung at my oldest sister's funeral in 1994, she passed away from leukemia at age 13 on 02/17/94, I miss her so much and every time I listen to this song I cry. We was very close and best friends and her death hit me the most, I didn't want to go to school and wanted to die and my mom said it was just her time and it wasn't my time yet. I was 11 turning 12. I know she's in a better place with the Lord. Rest In Peace my beautiful angel Danielle Tamika Harvin. 🌺🌼🌸🌹🌷💕💖💞💟😇😢🙁
I cry uncontrollably everytime I hear it! I Adore my son (25) but I literally Pray for his Safety EVERYDAY and EVERYTIME he leaves the house. I sometimes cry myself into a Migraine until he gets to his destination! I Pray for a safer World.. Father God🙏🏾
When I was deep in my addiction the man I was with, who brought me into my addiction, had a visit from his mother. She dropped off a portable tape player & a cassette tape. She made a note on it to listen to a certain track and when he brought it in he just gave it to me and said here. I looked at it and wasn't familiar with Regina Belle. I put the headphones on & went to the track & started to listen. I had to take them off & stop the tape. It was too much for me to bear that this guy that got me so tangled up in his world of drugs had a mother that loved him very much. That was my introduction to this artist & this song. Crazy right? Everyone has a Mom that loves them...everyone.
Lost Warrior YOU NOT LOST IT HAPPENED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE THEY ASSUME IF THEY DO WIITH THIER PARTNER DO IT WOULD KEEP THEM IN LOVE AND NEITHER ONE WILL BE SEPARATED/\YOU HAVE TO TELL YOURSELF YOU LOVE YOU AND HIM OR HER TO WHAT’S RIGHT AND YOU GOT TO BECOME MORE TRUE FULL TO YOURSELF AND IT’S GOING TO HURT CAUSE ONE YOU KICK THE HABBIT AND THEE OTHER MAY NOT JUST KNOW LOVE IS NOT WATCHING SOMEONE SUFFER AND ADDING TO IT/\LOVE CURES=LOVE SOLVES=LOVES HEALS=LOVE GIVE LOVE AND IT’S NOT A BODYACHER OR SHORTEGE AND JUST BECAUSE YOU REACHING FOR HELP DOESN’T MEANS HE GOING TO DROWN JUST BE WILLING TO ALLOW ONE ANOTHER TO SAY I LOVE ME SEE ME IN ABETTER PLACE(THIS IS FROM LEASA MCINTOSH )
This song makes me cry everytime i hear it. I dedicate this to my son cause Lord knows "If I could" I would protect him from this mean world. I love my son so much!
Love your son my sister but don't over mother him. That way he won't grow up soft and helpless. Not saying you in particular but many Black mothers tend to over mother their boys.
My mother passed away, February 14, 2018. This song always made me think of my mother. Now that she is gone, I Love this song even more. Please keep me in your prayers.!
You’re a Year Older than Me! I’m a ‘99 Baby. 90s isn’t My Favorite. More like the 70s & 80s. But the 90s does have some Goodies. And this is One of them.
🙋🏽♀️Same here, 2 girls 1 boy. My oldest daughter just turned 21 this month and next month she's is moving to another city with her 20 year old boyfriend who she's only known a little over one year. I'm so scared and worried for her but what can I do? 🤷🏽♀️😩😪💔 The more you try to prove to them that something isn't right, the more they pull towards it. 😔🤦🏽♀️ Sometimes I just tear up when I think about her leaving. I wish she could just see all the red flags in that relationship. This guy didn't even want her to finish college!! She's in culinary school and she's suppressed to be going one more year to get the highest degree which is Doctoral but she's gonna finish this semester in March and move in with him and his mom until they can get a place. 😑🤨 So she's put all this time into school only to end up staying with a bum of a boyfriend who lives with his mom in her roach infested house that's so infested she's having to move because she can't get rid of them all?!?😵🤮 My daughter has lead a very sheltered life to the point that she didn't even have to work as a teen, she just chose to. She hasn't even got her driver's license yet and neither has he!!!! The car my mom bought her was for her to practice in and get her license so she could drive herself to class but now that she's not getting her doctoral and decided to move with him, my mom's gonna sale the car. Anyone reading this PLEASE just pray with me that she doesn't get pregnant and that she still goes after her career of being a chef. 🙏🏽👩🏽🍳😊 Her name is Megan (I call her chef MeMe🥰) Sorry this was so long, I guess I needed to vent that. 😌 Best of luck to anyone reading this that may be going through anything similar. 🙏🏽💗
Love this song so much! Had my son at 19 years old. He is way past 40 now! We were alone, his father left us. He didn't want anything to do with us. But we made it. I was a waitress hardly made $100.00 a week, but we loved and held on to each other. Back then you were looked down on for being pregnant and not married. My relatives, doctor and even the hospital when he was born, tried to make me give him up, they all said children like this need a good home. They said that I could never take care of him. But there is no way I would have ever lived with myself had I listened to those judgemental hateful people. This was my song then and still is today. I think it's the most beautiful song to your child ever written! There's no way you can listen to it and not cry for you and your child. And feel proud of the true love you have for each other. A bond that will never die. 🎵🎶❤❤❤🎶🎵
willieb20052001 so true I have only seen comments from women and you are the only man who has commented well done for speaking on behalf of the male population. Also there are two other versions of this song Barbra striesand and Celine Dion Check them out.
If I could I'd protect you From the sadness In your eyes Give you courage In a world Of compromise Yes, I would If I could I would teach you All the things I've never learned And I'd help you Cross the bridges That I've burned Yes, I would [Chorus:] If I could I would try to shield Your innocence From time But the part of life I gave you isn't mine I'll watch you grow So I can let you go If I could I would help you Make it through The hungry years But I know That I can never Cry your tears, babe But I would if I could If I could In a time And place Where you Don't wanna be You don't have To walk along This road with me My yesterday Won't have to be Your way If I knew I'd try To change the world I brought you to Now there Isn't much more What I can do But I would If I could [Chorus] If I could
Whitney Jackson Thank you so much sweetie, you just blessed my day with the lyrics of this beautiful masterpiece, by the lovely Regina Belle my daughter is blessing me with my first grandbabies twin girls in less then six weeks, and I emailed her this song.
Whitney, thank you for putting out these lyrics. This song represents my heart to my daughter. One never knows the love in a mother's heart until they have that child and watch him or her grow up. But my daughter will always be my heart, my child. If I could change the work for her, I would...
I first heard this song when I was pregnant of my son at the age of 15 in 1993. He has grown to be an honorable man and is getting married in May. As he was growing up, I played this song for him time and time and again and I would hold him tight as I sang along. We will be dancing to this song for our mother / son dance at his wedding. I was never able to to keep the tears from falling whenever I heard this song, so i know im going to need someone next to me with a box of tissues in hand.
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@Crystal Hicks I just sent this song to my kids wishing my mom was still here..Its gonna b hard but you will make it... I took me some but I've made it with the help of my kids.. Bless U & Stay Strong... It will b OK..
Our mother passed in July 2020 of dementia,she was 79, she buried 3 sons and a husband. My sister, myself and 1 grandson, and great grandson are all that's left. She endured a lot and she is greatly missed. Our sympathy to the wahlberg family.
My daughter is 13, I made a playlist of about a dozen songs for her after she was born and I must add this to it. I’m not ashamed that this song brings me to tears...
I got chills When she said, " My yesterday, won't have to beeeeeeee yooooooooooooour waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay" Sheesh! That's a singing woman.
My sons told me to let them go......"cut the umbilical cord" because I'm too over protective. I just can't, I sing this song to them, and PRAY for them.....24/7.
claudette lewis-smith We went through the same thing. Let them be independent and it will seem there a distance away, but one day they will return because they’ll know who really loves them, and that’s their momma! Your prayers will be answered in due time, you can count on that😉
My mother sung this to my oldest sister on her death bed and my cousin sung it at her funeral a week later. I don't know what bought me here to listen to this but, it made me cry just as hard as it did that day we all said goodbye. R.I.P Andrea Yvonne Arrington 💜
This Hits Hard When You Have Children That's Growing Up So Fast & Identifying & Developing Their Own Life & Way, This Song Makes Me So Emotional, Thinking About Your ✊🏾Children & How The Way Some People Are In This World That's So Hateful & Divided,I Have To Throw My Hands Up To ABBA ELOHIYM To Pray For Protection To Cover The Innocent Young Babies & Young People of This World, This Song Will Always Represent Parents That Want To Shield Their Babies From All Hurt,Harm & Danger,But Have Realize You Have To One Day Let Go & Trust That Everything Will Be Just Fine. LOVE YOU Mrs.Regina Belle👸🏾🤎
So gifted,so glad she went on to her Ministerial obligations,her gift after all was from God! God Bless her soul,her heart and her aspirations!!❤💯🙏🏽👍🏼💐😃👏
I'm listening to this in 2021 and I'm feeling all those memories reminiscing as a child growing up Regina bell is so underrated listening from 🇯🇲🇯🇲Jamaica
What a beautiful song and such a perfect description of my mother. It's been eight months, and her passing (even after a 6-year sickbed) has deeply scarred her 3 sons. If you - reading this now - know yourself to be a caring mother, I have this to tell you: Never underestimate your value in your children's lives. To them, home isn't a place, "home" is wherever YOU are.
Hang in there. My mom always said 'Life goes on with or without us'. And it definitely does. My mom died June 29 2014. And I'm still here. You don't get 'over it', but you learn how to adjust to life without your mother, and you keep living. 🔱 🗽
Sadly, divorce has separated me from our 2 children...their smiles, ...their joys..their pain...just the sound of their voices in a place we once called Home... but yet through my tears... I glean hope in songs like these. Love your kid ...every chance you get...coz one day you will put your arms around them one last time in this world.
Being a Preacher, I interpret the song from God's perspective as a parent. Our process of life cannot be circumvented for it is in these processes and experiences where we learn, grow, and mature.
Men will never be able to fully understand the depths of a woman's love and sacrifice for her children. Without a Mother's love and selfless sacrifice to her children the human race would have died off a million years ago
I’m sitting in my room just crying. I have a son and pregnant currently with a son on the way. And as I watch the oldest sleep and think about the one coming all I can do is thank GOD for trusting me with them.💙
I danced this song with my son at his wedding...I cried from beginning to end. In one song Regina was able to capture te wishes of every mother/grandmother in this world. Thank you Regina
Sitting here crying. I wasn't taught how to be a father. Now a father of three girls ,19,18,17 and two boys 18, and 15. And a guardian of my niece who's 8. I am having issues with my 18 year son who thinks he has the world figured out. We butt heads and he hasn't spoken to me in 5months ( he moved back with his mom). It hurts as a dad who loves his child but I know God is good. This song is so appropriate right now.
For all our children: "If I could, I'd teach you all the things I've learned, and I'd help you cross the bridges that I burn." Sing Regina, sing. You bring tears to my eyes.
My mom died at the age of 70. She came down with a form of cancer that placed her in a rehabilitation center where she had a fall that injured her hip and the combination of the cancer and the fall was to much for her heart to deal with. She died November 27,2016. One day before my birthday. A day doesn't past that she is not missed. If she was here, I would sing this song to her. Fighting to hold back tears
I’m so thankful for my Son and Daughter that God bless me with My Babies.. Relly and Tamara and my beautiful grandchildren.. Cam, D.J. Amir, Nasir, Sa’di and my great grandkids. Riley my Ginger Snap and Aubrey Abu Dhabi give me my eyes back what a Wonderful Blessing, I’m so grateful ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This was originally the amazing Nancy Wilson's song but Regina made it her own! It was the song I dedicated to my son during our Mother/Son dance at his wedding! It is everything I wanted to say to him as he married his beautiful wife in 2019.
I just sent this song to my daughter who's gone away to study. She's 24 but it's her first time being away from home. Sometimes she feels depressed and homesick.I really wish I could... but she has to learn to fly
My First Time Really Hearing This Amazing Song Of Encouragement! The Kids Of Today In 2024 Is In Need Of This Message! This Song Needs To Be Put Back Into The Atmosphere! I Most Definitely Will Be Sending This Song To Others. Especially My Adorable Niece. WOW! It More Than A Song! 🎶 It's Letting Someone Know! If I Could Help You, And Be There For You..... I Would! 😭 I Dedicate This Song To Every Child, That Has Ever Had To Endure Any Type Of Abuse!!! 😭 Thank You, Ms. Regina Belle.🌺💎🌹🙏
I danced with my son at his wedding to this song. He is my Prince who Achieved so much. Now I ache for his voice, his hug. He is with God. How I ache for you Rob. Momma
It's 2022 and I still love this song as much as I did when she first put it out. I sang this song for my babies when they were born. I sang this as a frustrated single mother. And now I sing it in gratitude, honor, pain and remembrance of my best friend my mother J. Jones 4/56-10/21. Thank you mommy. ❤
This song has so much meaning to every parent out there. "I would try to shield your innocence from time". "I could never cry your tears". This is a song from the heart and it applies to anyone who has ever raised a child. At 62 years old, I still cry when listening to these words. What an amazing dedication to being a parent!
this is truly a beautiful song. after a hard day at work and to hear my daughter say " I just love you daddy", is the best feeling in the world. For those who don't have kids, just adopt, give love, life is too short. I love my kids and would do anything for them.
This song has touch many hearts. My tears are droping just listing. I knew my mother said these same eords when i worked the street and druged. When she passed 1999 i had 3 years clean. In 2011 i had 14 years clean. Im doi g well now at age 65
Regina’s vocals are as clear as a bell they ring through in every song . (No pun intended). I love her singing of this and video, speaks volumes.🌎❤️🙏🏾😭💥
