Darius Rucker on the CMA Awards Red Carpet at "The 42nd Annual CMA Awards," on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008, broadcast live from the Sommet Center in Nashville on the ABC Television Network. Photo courtesy of the Country Music Association.
Nov. 17, 2008 — After establishing himself as the frontman for the pop band Hootie + The Blowfish, Darius Rucker surprised lots of people with his successful shift this year into life as a solo country singer.
His sophomore country single is "It Won’t Be Like This For Long," a sentimental song that looks at parenting as a fleeting part of adulthood. Darius, who has a seven-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son, very much created it from personal experience.
"I wrote that song with Ashley Gorley and Chris DuBois," Darius told the national radio show GAC Nights: Live From Nashville. "We sat down that day, and we were talking about our kids. I was talking about how much I miss my kids because I’d been gone away for a couple of weeks and it was just a thing, and we just decided we were gonna write a song about our kids. And when we were done with it, I mean, I was blown away. That’s one of those songs if we play it now, if I have the wrong thought in my head, it’s all I can do not to cry, because I love my kids so much, and I love the song so much."
If history repeats itself, "It Won’t Be Like This For Long" might well go to No. 1. After all, that’s what Darius did with his first country single, "Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It." In addition, "It Won’t Be Like This For Long" has a storyline similar to "You’re Gonna Miss This," which went to No. 1 for Trace Adkins. "It Won’t Be Like This" and "You’re Gonna Miss This" have one other thing in common: Both were co-written by Ashley Gorley.