You're Gonna Miss This

Infobox Single
Name = You're Gonna Miss This


Artist = Trace Adkins
Album =
Released = start date|2007|12|25
Format = CD single
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 3:44
Label = Capitol Nashville
Writer = Ashley Gorley
Lee Thomas Miller
Producer = Frank Rogers
Audio sample? =
Certification =
Last single = "I Got My Game On" (2007)
This single = "You're Gonna Miss This" (2007)
Next single = "Muddy Water" (2008)
Misc =

"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 "". Adkins's fastest-climbing single to date, [cite web |url=http://www.thatscountry.com/am2/publish/Country_News_2/004152.shtml |title=Trace Adkins brings "The Boardroom" to Nashville |accessdate=2008-03-10|work=That's Country.com] 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:cite web |url=http://www.nwlanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7874&Itemid=57 |title=Sarepta plays host to Trace Adkins video |accessdate=2008-03-10 |last=Ryan |first=Jana |date=2008-03-03 |work=NWLA News]

:"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, Louisiana 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."cite journal |last=Horner |first=Alanna |date=2008-05-19 |title=Story Behind the Song |journal=Country Weekly |volume=15 |issue=10 |pages=14 |accessdate= 2008-05-02] 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. Upon hearing Adkins's recording of the song, Gorley felt that Adkins had "made it something more than it was".

Charts

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