Til I Was a Daddy Too - Tracy Lawrence

Do you recall, Daddy when I was six?

I got lost out in the woods and you worried yourself sick

What about the day I got in my first fight

Mama, she got mad but you swelled up with pride

I never knew how deep a father’s love could run

Until I had a son

From watching him learn how to crawl

To skinned up knees from skateboard falls

To praying he’d get through football alive

From hearing his first words spoken

The first time his heart got broken

And knowing soon he’ll spread his wings and fly

I guess I didn’t know what a Daddy goes through

Til I was a Daddy too

Real love, the kind that you can’t understand

Until you hold it in your arms and touch it with your hands

Pure joy, the kind that you can only find

When you live your life for them and leave yourself behind

More and more I’m seeing life go by

Through my Daddy’s eyes

From watching him learn how to crawl

To skinned up knees from skateboard falls

To praying he’d get through football alive

From hearing his first words spoken

The first time his heart got broken

And knowing soon he’ll spread his wings and fly

I guess I didn’t know what a Daddy goes through

Til I was a Daddy too

The fast pace of time goes racing from first grade to graduation

And knowing soon he’ll spread his wings and fly

I guess I didn’t know what a Daddy goes through

Til I was a Daddy too

I guess I didn’t know what a Daddy goes through

Til I was a Daddy too