Wasn't I brushing the hair from your face

Wasn't I just drying your tears and singing you sweet dreams at night

Seems like it was just yesterday

Suddenly you're seventeen and it's just eighteen months 'til goodbye

I'd rather deny it

God knows I'd try if I could keep you here at home, but I know.

Loving you is holding you

Lifting you up

Planting the seeds and then watching you grow

Even though it's hard to do

It's letting you fall

And giving you wings so you fly on your own

'cause part of loving you is letting you go.

All of your life I've prepared you to leave

Now that little boy's all grown up and it's too late for changing my mind

But nobody ever warned me

That the years go too fast and there's just no pressing rewind.

'cause time is a liar, wish I could set the clock on fire

Turn it back to yesterday

Oh but it just keeps tickin' away.

Loving you is holding you

Lifting you up

Planting the seeds and then watching you grow

Even though it's hard to do

It's letting you fall

And giving you wings so you fly on your own

Part of loving you is letting you go.

No matter how I wanna make you stay

You were also born to fly away.

Loving you is holding you

Lifting you up

Planting the seeds and then watching you grow

Even though it's hard to do

It's letting you fall

And giving you wings so you fly on your own

Part of loving you is letting you go

Letting you go.