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| Single by Trace Adkins from the album American Man: Greatest Hits Volume II |
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| Released | December 25, 2007 | ||||
| Format | CD single | ||||
| Genre | Country | ||||
| Length | 3:44 | ||||
| Label | Capitol Nashville | ||||
| Writer(s) | Ashley Gorley Lee Thomas Miller |
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| Producer | Frank Rogers | ||||
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"You're Gonna Miss This" is a single by American country music artist Trace Adkins. It is the second single released from his 2007 album American Man: Greatest Hits Volume II. Adkins's fastest-climbing single to date,1 it is his third Number One hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, as well as a Top 20 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Pop 100 charts.
Content
"You're Gonna Miss This" is a ballad composed of three verses, each one portraying an event in the life of an un-named female character: being driven to school by her mother in the first verse, being visited at her apartment by her father in the second verse, and conversing with a plumber while her kids are misbehaving and making noise in the third verse. In all three of the situations, the song's other characters (the parents and the plumber) assure the central character that, although she may not realize it, she will miss the various moments of her life:2
- "You're gonna miss this
- You're gonna want this back
- You're gonna wish these days
- Hadn't gone by so fast
- These are some good times
- So take a good look around
- You may not know it now
- But you're gonna miss this"
The song's music video was filmed in Adkins's hometown of Sarepta, Louisiana2 and contains a variety of Americana scenes framed around the singer traveling about in a pickup truck.
Ashley Gorley, one of the song's writers, came up with the central idea for "You're Gonna Miss This" one day while a repairman was working on his house. His two children (ages two and four at the time; he has since had a third) were running around the house and stealing the repairman's tools; after Gorley apologized, the repairman replied, "Don't worry about it — I've got two babies, too."3 Gorley, after determining that the incident with the repairman might work as a song idea, recalled it to Lee Thomas Miller, who then suggested the title "You're Gonna Miss This". The two then worked backward from the bridge, changing the song's scenario several times until they finally settled on having the song focus on a female central character.
Adkins, then, decided to record it after hearing it; being the father of five daughters, he associated with its message.3 Upon hearing Adkins's recording of the song, Gorley felt that Adkins had "made it something more than it was".3
Charts
| Chart (2007-2008) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 12 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 19 |
| Canadian Country Singles Chart | 1 |
| Billboard Canadian Hot 100 | 11 |
| Preceded by "Small Town Southern Man" by Alan Jackson |
Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one single April 12-April 26, 2008 |
Succeeded by "I Saw God Today" by George Strait |
| Preceded by "All-American Girl" by Carrie Underwood |
Canadian Country Singles Chart number-one single March 28-April 11, 2008 |
References
- ^ "Trace Adkins brings "The Boardroom" to Nashville". That's Country.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-10.
- ^ a b Ryan, Jana (2008-03-03). "Sarepta plays host to Trace Adkins video". NWLA News. Retrieved on 2008-03-10.
- ^ a b c Horner, Alanna (2008-05-19). "Story Behind the Song". Country Weekly 15 (10): 14.
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