Darius Rucker - It Won't Be Like This for Long Lyrics

He didn't have to wake up
He'd been up all nite
Lay'n there in bed listen'n
To his new born baby cry

He makes a pot of coffee
He splashes water on his face
His wife gives him a kiss and says
It gonna be OK

It won't be like this for long
One day soon we'll look back laugh'n
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 there bed
And when he drops her off at preschool
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 we'll drop her off
And she won't even know your gone

This phase is gonna fly by
If you can just hold on
It won't be like this for long

One day soon she'll be a teenager
And at times you'll think she hates him
Then he'll walk her down the isle
And he'll raise her vale

But right now she up and cry'n
And the truth is that he don't mind
As he kisses her good night
And she says her prayers

He lays down there beside her
Till her eyes are finally closed
And just watch'n 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
He's try'n to hold on
It won't be like this for long
It won't be like this for long