New Father: Lyrics

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Lyrics for “New Father”

track 8 from Child Coming Home (album, 2019)

Verse 1:

June 13th, the milk carton says,

Is when this drink will expire

And that date makes me think,

And, I admit, perspire

Because on June 13th my wife is due

To release to the world this child she grew
 And I admit that before I thought that I knew

How to keep from getting too hot and bothered.

But that was before, that was before,
 That was before I was a new father
 But now I’m a new father
 I am a new father
 

Verse 2:
 July 25th has come and gone

Another year since our wedding.
 I had so many dreams now gone from my life

Like the hair of a dog that is shedding
 But listen: one by one as I laid them down
 My heart was filled with a truth as light yet profound
 As the weight of my son I lift from the ground

And who with gentle voice says, “Father, I love you”
 

Bridge:
 When I was a child, I thought like a child
 I talked like a child. I reasoned like a child

But love grew me up

Love taught me that

It’s not about me
 So now I’m living for love
 Because love set me free
 

Verse 3:
 Decades pass like fading grass
 My child has grown in a moment
 I sang love’s song and he sang along
 But did I love him well? Has he known it?
 And though my heart does reach for days gone past
 I don’t fear for the future

I’m safe in the grasp

Of a fierce, grand love that will never elapse:

The Son of God laid down his life for my pardon

So I am a son, I am son, forever a son
 Of my Heavenly Father, my Heavenly Father

My Everlasting Father