The second is the radio version, which adds additional hi-hat and drums, and also edits out the ending. Every time I sing it, I can connect with it again and again and again because I'm no longer expressing fears in my thoughts about being a father I'm a full-fledged living-it-every-day father. And as a human being and as a father, my feelings haven't changed one bit from those that are expressed in that song. Now I'm a full-fledged father with a 14-year-old, a daughter who's going to be 7 in June and my youngest, who's 3. And then I think back to the spirit and the somewhat naiveté, just that brutal honesty that that song expressed as me being a young man and approaching fatherhood for the first time.
And then I think of my newest son, my three-year-old, Daniel.
"It continues to have relevant meaning in my life because as I sing it now, I think of my daughter who's now on this planet and alive. In a 2013 interview with Songfacts, Stapp said of the song: In later years Stapp would not use "he" or "she" in reference to the child but rather "they" to refer to both his sons and daughter. This would eventually be changed when Stapp found out he would be having a son. The original lyrics to the song were written from the perspective of having a daughter, even though his wife was pregnant with a boy, as Stapp used "she" during early live performances. Stapp wrote the lyrics when he found out, with great surprise, that he was going to be a father. Stapp overheard guitarist Mark Tremonti playing and loved what he heard so much that he ran in and told Tremonti to just keep playing as Stapp began singing his lyrics. According to Stapp the song was written in 15 minutes at soundcheck. Scott Stapp began writing the lyrics to the song in early 1998 during the My Own Prison tour, when he found out that his then wife Hillaree Burns was pregnant with his first child, Jagger.
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