There Goes My Life Analysis

All he could think about was I'm too young for this.
Got my whole life ahead.Hell I'm just a kid myself.
How'm I gonna raise one.

All he could see were his dreams goin' up in smoke.
So much for ditchin' this town and hangin' out on the coast.
Oh well, those plans are long gone.

[Chorus:]And he said,There goes my life.
There goes my future, my everything.
Might as well kiss it all good-bye.
There goes my life.......

A couple years of up all night and a few thousand diapers later.
That mistake he thought he made covers up the refrigerator.
Oh yeah..........he loves that little girl.
Momma's waiting to tuck her in,
As she fumbles up those stairs.
She smiles back at him dragging that teddy bear.
Sleep tight, blue eyes and bouncin' curls.

[Chorus:]He smiles.....There goes my life.
There goes my future, my everything.
I love you, daddy good-night.
There goes my life.

She had that Honda loaded down.
With Abercrombie clothes and 15 pairs of shoes and his American Express.
He checked the oil and slammed the hood, said you're good to go.
She hugged them both and headed off to the West Coast.

[Chorus:]And he cried,There goes my life.
There goes my future, my everything.
I love you.
Baby good-bye.
There goes my life.
There goes my life.
Baby good-bye.

Babies are miracles that are brought into this world on a daily basis. However, some parents do not consider their child a miracle for one reason or another. Many times this is because the parents aren’t even ready to be parents to begin with. In the song “There Goes My Life” by Kenny Chesney, he writes about a teen having a baby and that baby turning out to be the love of his life.
Within the first verse Chesney is singing from the perspective of a teenage boy who was just told that his girlfriend is pregnant; “I’m just a kid myself. How’m I gonna raise one?” He then goes on to reminisce about all the plans he had, such as “hangin’ out on the coast” and how those dreams were “goin’ up in smoke.” In the chorus he writes, “there goes my life. There goes my future, my everything”, Chesney uses the child and his life as an interchangeable metaphor. The child is now the speaker’s life. In the second verse the tone has changed, in one line he says, “that mistake he thought he made covers up the refrigerator. Oh yeah… he loves that little girl.” The speaker is now happy that he has his baby girl in his life. This line also has personification in it. The last line of the verse when he is watching his daughter climb up the stairs, “sleep tight, blue eyes and bouncin’ curls” is also personification. The chorus then repeats, except now he says I love you, the listener can tell he is happy to be a daddy. In the last verse, Chesney describes the daughter leaving home finally and driving to the west coast, which is ironic because the dad wanted to do that when he was younger but never got to, because of his daughter. In the last chorus, the tone is completely different from the first chorus, “he cried, there goes my life. There goes my future, my everything. I love you. Baby good-bye.” At the end of the song the speaker, or dad, is sad to see his daughter leave and has no more regrets of ever having her.
“There Goes My Life” by Kenny Chesney, sends a moving message, that everyone deserves a chance, even a baby. It also shows that as we grow up we realize what is most important to us, something that may have been important to us when we were younger may now, not even matter. Leaving for the coast was the speaker’s future, by the end of the song, his daughter was his only future, and he did not want it any other way. As we grow up, we learn a lot, make many decisions, and have some life-altering experiences on the way.