It Won't Be Like This For Long

[ti:It Won't Be Like This for Long] [ar:The Hit Crew] [al:Essential Country: Cowboy Classics, Vol. 6] [offset:0] [00:00.67]It Won't Be Like This for Long - The Hit Crew [00:15.09]He didn't have to wake up [00:16.88] [00:18.37]He'd been up all nite [00:20.04] [00:21.45]Lay'n there in bed listen'n [00:23.54] [00:24.70]To his new born baby cry [00:26.79] [00:28.68]He makes a pot of coffee [00:30.29] [00:30.79]He splashes water on his face [00:33.45] [00:34.90]His wife gives him a kiss and says [00:37.66]It's gonna be OK [00:39.80] [00:40.91]It won't be like this for long [00:44.90] [00:48.04]One day soon we'll look back laugh'n [00:50.31] [00:51.36]At the week we brought her home [00:53.52] [00:54.56]This phase is gonna fly by [00:56.82] [00:58.52]So baby just hold on [01:00.04] [01:02.79]It won't be like this for long [01:05.27] [01:11.43]Four years later bout four thirty [01:13.30] [01:14.56]She's crawling in there bed [01:16.86] [01:18.09]And when he drops her off at preschool [01:20.29] [01:21.21]She's clinging to his leg [01:23.36] [01:25.02]The teacher peels her off of him [01:27.39] [01:28.29]He says what can I do [01:29.85] [01:31.43]She says now don't you worry [01:33.25] [01:34.41]This will only last a week or two [01:36.60] [01:37.66]It won't be like this for long [01:41.78] [01:44.31]One day soon you'll drop her off [01:46.83] [01:47.52]And she won't even know your gone [01:49.90] [01:51.30]This phase is gonna fly by [01:53.50] [01:55.12]If you can just hold on [01:56.88] [01:59.24]It won't be like this for long [02:01.75] [02:04.63]Some day soon she'll be a teenager [02:06.92] [02:07.87]And at times you'll think she hates him [02:10.36] [02:11.40]Then he'll walk her down the isle [02:13.40] [02:14.30]And he'll raise her vale [02:15.64] [02:18.06]But right now she up and cry'n [02:20.06] [02:21.07]And the truth is that he don't mind [02:23.42] [02:24.73]As he kisses her good night [02:26.98]And she says her prayers [02:28.87] [02:31.76]He lays down there beside her [02:33.73] [02:34.68]Till her eyes are finally closed [02:36.61] [02:37.76]And just watch'n her it breaks his heart [02:40.52] [02:41.49]Cause he already knows [02:43.13] [02:44.25]It won't be like this for long [02:48.23] [02:50.96]One day soon that little girl is gonna be [02:54.05] [02:54.86]All grown up and gone [02:56.52] [02:57.86]Yeah this phase is gonna fly by [03:00.02] [03:01.58]He's try'n to hold on [03:03.55] [03:05.92]It won't be like this for long [03:08.28] [03:12.36]It won't be like this for long [03:15.44]