[Intro]
[Verse 1]
Rushing through maternity
We spent like 12 hours in this room
God damn, sh** feels like an eternity
I keep asking are you out yet
I know your mama probably want to murder me
We told the nurse to close the curtains please
I keep peeking, I'm so impatient
I can't help it I just want to be the first to see
The little me or little you or little I
But I was no longer I
When I first heard you cry
Doctors took you away
We thought that you might die
All that I could think is I ain't even get to say goodbye
Looked your mama in the eye
She was so sad
She said go dad, sh** was so bad
Facing the biggest fear that we both had
And this is what I scribbled in my notepad
I told you I would would spend all my life
[Chorus]
Baby I would spend all my life
Trying to do right by you
And I never leave you lone at night
I'll be there when you need me to
And even though I know you might
Miss me when I'm gone
I just hope you know
Know that I do it all for you
Yeah
(x4)
I do it all, I do it, I do it all
Do it all for you
[Verse 2]
You were just a couple weeks old
I used to wrap you in a blanket cause your feet cold
I would tell you how proud I was you made it through
Whisper to you cause your mama still asleep though
Every hour you would cry and I would feed you
And I would think about the things I want to teach you
I just want to be the dad that I never had
I wonder if you needed me like I need you
I used to love picking out your outfits
Then show you to your mama like how's this
I ain't have a job and I loved that
Cause every day you who I'm at the house with
And you your daddy's boy, like to laugh lots
And I would rather that you have more than have nots
So I got back on the music so could have lots
And this is what i scribbled in my laptop
I told you I would spend all my life
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Right around your first birthday
I was going through it in the worst way
Music wasn't moving I was struggling
So every single night I had to work late
Fighting with your mom cause she don't see
That a lost cause what I won't be
And even though I know she got a 9 to 5
I still feel like all the pressure's on me
And you were too young, to really know what it meant
Daddy can't afford rent, cause daddy don't got a cent
So daddy had to leave, just know it hurt me a lot
To know I'd never get back the time I spent
I mean I left my little guy lone
And took away a shoulder you could cry on
And now I wish that I could fly home
So this is what I scribbled in my iPhone
I promised I would spend all my life
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the lord my soul he keep
If I should die before I wake
I pray you always see your daddy's face
You were my heart when I was close to dying
My guiding light, all that I rely in
So when I'm weary I keep moving on
And I owe it all to Marley Ryan