This is the story of a man who was in a hospital, and he was dying.
His wife had been sitting by his bedside for three days and three nights.
Somewhere on the third day, between midnight and day,
she laid down beside him and dozed off to sleep.
Well, he sensed her when she dozed off to sleep,
and at the same time he felt himself start to die.
He didn't want her to see him pass away,
so he took his notepad by the side of the bed and he wrote,
"Softly,
I will leave you softly,
for my heart would break
if you should wake
and see me go.
So I leave you
softly,
long before you miss me,
long before your arms
can beg me stay
for one more hour
or one more day.
After all the years,
I can't bear the tears
to fall.
So softly, so softly,
I will leave you there,
I will leave you there."
