It Won't Be Like This for Long

He didn't have to wake up

He'd been up all night

Lying there in bed listening

To his newborn baby cry

He makes a pot of coffee

Splashes water on his face

His wife gives him a kiss and says

"It's gonna be okay"

It won't be like this for long

One day we'll look back laughing

At the week we brought her home

This phase is gonna fly by

So baby, just hold on

It won't be like this for long

Four years later, 'bout four-thirty

She's crawling in the bed

When he drops her off at pre-school

She's clinging to his leg

The teacher peels her off of him

He says, "What can I do?"

She says, "Now don't you worry

This will only last a week or two"

It won't be like this for long

One day soon you'll drop her off

And she won't even know you're gone

This phase is gonna fly by

If you can just hold on

It won't be like this for long

Someday soon she'll be a teenager

And at times you'll think she hates him

And he'll walk her down the aisle and raise a veil

But right now, she's up and crying

And the truth is that he don't mind

As he kisses her goodnight

And she says her prayers

He lays down there beside her

'Til her eyes are finally closed

Just watching her, it breaks his heart

'Cause he already knows

It won't be like this for long

One day soon that little girl is gonna be

All grown up and gone

Yeah, this phase is gonna fly by

So he's trying to hold on

It won't be like this for long

It won't be like this for long