Karaoké It Won't Be Like This for Long Darius Rucker

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 OK

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 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 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

Some day soon she'll be a teenager

And at times you'll think she hates him

And he'll walk her down the isle and he'll raise her veil

But right now she's 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 'cos 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