I Wish My Love Could Keep You Like This

a song I wrote for my daughter when she was a week old

I’ve just released a new song this week for my two year old daughter! It’s about the love we have for our children as they’re growing. I write more about it below.

Sometimes it feels like time should pause.

Let me be here for at least a minute longer before this moment is gone.¹

I don’t remember feeling that sentiment much before my wife and I had our first baby two years ago, but then I began to feel it often. I would foresee my daughter’s childhood to adulthood in my mind, and be in tears while she was still only a one-week-old baby in my arms.

“Please, just keep being this beautiful baby…”

It’s a feeling connected to moments of deep love for people or God or His creation. Sometimes it’s woven into the joy and love experienced in moments of singing, working, or creating.

Most of all, I think this feeling is a powerful longing for an eternal Kingdom that we’re living in, but that isn’t fully realized yet.

the new song

So, I wrote a new song called: “I Wish My Love Could Keep You Like This”. The acoustic version is just releasing on the streaming platforms. I wrote it when our daughter was just one week old, and we just celebrated her turning two years old.

The song shares some emotions my wife and I had of a newborn coming into our lives. And even while wishing I could keep my baby like this, I look ahead with the phrase, “But I know / That you’ll grow”.

I hope you enjoy the song 🙏

You can listen through the main streaming platforms through the links below and see the lyrics if you keep scrolling!

Listen on Apple Music
Listen on Spotify
Listen on YouTube

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I Wish My Love Could Keep You Like This

Verse 1
I wish my love could keep you like this
From your tiny toes and hands
To your little, rosy lips

And the sound of your sweet gentle cries
They would always be the songs
Bringing tears to my eyes

But I know
That you'll grow


Chorus
Thank you God for the grace that you've given
For the love of a Father poured out for His Child
And every day my baby grows I'll feel this way again
I wish my love could keep you like this


Verse 2
I remember when I first saw your face
And every fear that we had
Felt completely out of place

Then I held you and said, "just be still"
And I thought in my heart,
"Maybe that's how God feels"

And He knows
That we'll grow


Verse 3
When the Father says His Kingdom has come
And the true King returns
For all His daughters and sons

We will dance by the light of His smile
We're just kids in His eyes
With a faith like a child

And we'll know
That we're home

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Thanks for reading!

Shalom and happy Thanksgiving.

-Durgan

1. This makes me think of the song “Photograph” by Cody Fry. I also wrote a poem with some similar sentiments called “How will time feel after death?” that you can read here.