It Won’t Be Like This for Long

[Verse 1] He didn't have to wake up He'd been up all night Lying there in bed listening 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 is going to be OK [Chorus] 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 going to fly by So baby just hold on It won't be like this for long [Verse 2] Four years later bout four thirty She's crawling in their 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 do not you worry This will only last a week or two [Chorus] 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 going to fly by If you could just hold on It won't be like this for long [Verse 3] Someday soon she'll be a teenager And at times he'll think she hates him Then he'll walk her down the aisle And he'll raise her veil But right now she up and crying 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 watching her it breaks his heart Cause he already knows [Chorus] It won't be like this for long One day soon that little girl is going to be All grown up and gone Yeah this phase is going to fly by He is trying to hold on It won't be like this for long It won't be like this for long