Stop, Time

Two months old, he looks up at you

How his smile melts your heart

You wanna say, "Stop, time

Don't move on"

Even as you watch, that look is gone

Then he's two, such a little man

So alive and so smart

Again you say, "Stop, time

Stay just this way"

But the future calls and he can't stay

Nobody warns you of this parent's paradox

You want your kid to change and grow

But when he does, another child you've just begun to know

Leaves forever

Birthdays fly: seven, eight, nine, ten

Every kid he becomes

You clutch and say

"Stop, time

Hold this one fast"

But it's not supposed to last

And that time has come and passed

For he's growing

And he has to go

If I had only stopped the clock four weeks ago

Somehow had frozen time right there

He's still be here, I'd see his face

I'd hold him in my arms

Safe forever

It can't be that he's reached thirteen

Now the real changes start

But he's not here

Stop, time, don't rush life so

Bring him back and then I'll let him go