Bobby Goldsboro - Honey Lyrics Meaning

HAve any of you ever had a loved one with a serious or terminal illness? Because those who think it was depression and suicide don’t appear to have ever lost a loved one to long term illness.

My father who just passed away, fought a terminal illness for over two years, and would occasionally just sit there an cry over the diagnosis and knowing his life was coming to an end. And the limitations on what he could do, or how he needed me to help him.
He was in hospice at home and I sat with him at the end but I got up to eat something and it was like a shadow passed over me. I stopped eating and went into his room but he was gone…. I have spent the last three months living this song. Looking around the house we built together and recalling funny stories or sad stories. And wishing I could be with him…
I had a doctor tell me he suspected I had cancer (and one of the nasty types). And during the run of tests and waiting for results about 10 to 14 days i kept it to myself, but I cried at the thought more then once….
I have almost lost relatives to cancer, i have lost relatives to cancer, I have lost a very very young friend to cancer when I was in high school. A young daughter of neighbors passed away to long term illness in her early 20s,
And this song does a remarkable job of invoking the emotions that you encounter with this type of situation.
She was crying “needlessly” because HE didn’t know why she was crying. Perhaps she just was diagnosed or she was just crying because she knew she was dying or perhaps she was in pain. But it was a terminal illness that took her.
I walked into my parents home one day to find my mother hugging the neighbor as the three of them (my dad my mother and my neighbor) all cries. The neighbor had cancer and had just told them.