Songs for Joshua - Week 2

Songs are such an emotional thing for me. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've had to sit in my car to finish crying & touch up my makeup after I hear a song on the radio that touches me. This week's song is one that really got me going this week. Every time I heard it, there were buckets of tears because I could really identify with it...even though it's about a daddy & a little girl.

Joshua has been having trouble sleeping. At first, it was just at night. Now, it's naptime as well. And when he's overtired and crying and I'm at the end of my rope, I remember that it's not going to be like this forever. He's growing so fast and sometimes I feel like I'm missing it. Like it's going too fast for me to really remember & enjoy each moment. So I have to remind myself to enjoy every moment. The moments when he's happy and laughing and the moments when he's crying and miserable. Because it won't be like this for long.

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"It Won't Be Like This For Long" - Darius Rucker

He didn't have to wake up
He'd been up all night
Laying 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 gonna be OK

It wont be like this for long
One day soon 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 your 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 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


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
Cause won't be like this for long
It won't be like this for long