He didn't have to wake up
He'd up, he'd been up all nite night
Lay'nLying there in bed listen'n
To and listening to his new born newborn baby cry
He makes a pot of coffee
He coffee, he splashes water on his face
His wife gives him a kiss and says
It it's gonna be OK okay

It wont won't be like this for long
One day soon we'll look back laugh'n
At laughing at the week we brought her home
This phase is gonna fly by
So by, so baby just hold on
It wont won't be like this for long

Four years later bout four thirty
'bout 4:30, she's crawling in there their bed
And when he drops her off at preschool
pre-school she's clinging to his leg
The teacher peels her off of him
He says what him, he says, "What can I do do?"
She says now says, "Now don't you worry
This will worry, this'll only last a week or two two"

It wont won't be like this for long
One day soon we'll you'll drop her off
And and she wont won't even know your you're gone
This phase is gonna fly by
If if you can just hold on
It wont won't be like this for long
One daySomeday soon she'll be a teenager
And and at times you'll he'll think she hates him
Then he'll walk her down the isle
And he'll aisle and raise her vale veil
But right now she she's up and cry'n
And crying and the truth is that he don't mind
As he kisses her good night
And goodnight and she says her prayersenter added
He lays down there beside her
Till till her eyes are finally closed
And just watch'n watching her it breaks his heart
Cause 'cause he already knowsenter added
It wont won't be like this for long
One day soon that little girl is gonna be
All all grown up and gone
YeahAnd this phase is gonna fly by
He's try'n by, so he's trying to hold on
It wont'Cause it won't be like this for long
It wont won't be like this for long