Letting You Go

[Verse 1]

Wasn't I brushing the hair from your face

Wasn't I just drying your tears and singing you sweet dreams at night

Seems like it was just yesterday

Suddenly you're seventeen

And it's just eighteen months till goodbye

[Pre-Chorus]

I'd rather deny it

And God knows I've tried

I could keep you here at home

But I know

[Chorus]

Loving you is holding you

And lifting you up

And planting the seeds and then watching you grow

And even though it's hard to do

It's letting you fall

And giving you wings so you fly on your own

'Cause part of loving you is letting you go

[Verse 2]

All of your life I've prepared you to leave

Now that little boys all grown up

And it's too late for changing your mind

Nobody ever warned me that the years go too fast

And there's just no pressing rewind

[Pre-Chorus]

'Cause time is a liar

Wish I could set the clock on fire

Turn it back to yesterday

But it just keeps ticking away

[Chorus]

Loving you is holding you

And lifting you up

And planting the seeds and then watching you grow

And even though it's hard to do

It's letting you fall

And giving you wings so you fly on your own

'Cause part of loving you is letting you go

No matter how I wanna make you stay

You were also born to fly away

Loving you is holding you

And lifting you up

And planting the seeds and then watching you grow

And even though it's hard to do

It's letting you fall

And giving you wings so you fly on your own

'Cause part of loving you is letting you go

Letting you go