"You're Gonna Miss This"
Single by Trace Adkins
from the album American Man: Greatest Hits Volume II
Released	December 25, 2007 (2007-12-25)
Format	CD single
Genre	Country
Length	3:44
Label	Capitol Nashville
Writer(s)	Ashley Gorley, Lee Thomas Miller
Producer	Frank Rogers
Certification	Gold (RIAA)
Trace Adkins singles chronology
"I Got My Game On" (2007) "You're Gonna Miss This" (2007) "Muddy Water" (2008)

"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 #12 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and #19 on the Pop 100 charts.

The song is part of the tracklist for Now That's What I Call Country.

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"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, Louisiana^[2] 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]

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