Story Behind The Song

I was at the Huntington library with my son Jackson when he was about two years old. They have an area where kids run and play and it's filled with little water activities. I feel like I was just outside of myself watching him play and had a wonderful experience of fatherhood.

Song Description

"This Boy" is a warm, heartfelt indie-folk song about a parent watching his young son grow and discovering the world around him. Through an affectionate and reflective perspective, the song captures the wonder, curiosity and imagination of childhood alongside the bittersweet realization of how quickly those years pass. Ultimately hopeful and uplifting, it celebrates a child's growing independence and encourages him to discover who he is, embrace possibility, and make the world what he wants it to be. Acoustic instrumentation and a cinematic emotional build give the song a natural fit for family and parent-child stories, childhood and growing-up montages, heartfelt television and film moments, and uplifting lifestyle or human-interest content.

Lyrics

"This Boy"
By: John Torres and Tim Kobza

V1
A wheel of colors, and I
I watch you name them one by one
Discovering water in these mesmerizing moments in the sun
Must be time travellers,
Cause' I blink and you have aged another day

Try to describe my feelings
But the words just sound like all those old clichés
Like "Hearts never loved so deeply"
So many things I wish that I could
Say to describe these moments
I guess that's how the poets made their names

Ch
This word of such strange joy
Oooh Boy

V2
He races round this place
As if it's outer space
But before I even write the verse
I see his tiny universe
Has grown and he is not the same
I stand in awe here whispering his name

You've got such curiosity
And now I've begun to see
This world is not the place I knew
Where who you are is what you do
It's all about this moment
This moment they can never take away

Ch
This word of such strange joy
Oooh Boy

Bridge
Take this world and make it
All that you want it to be
And as you go you'll find I'm
Always behind you
Here to remind you
You'll always be free

Outro
A wheel of colors and I
I watch you name them one by one
Discovering water in these mesmerizing moments in the sun
Must be time travellers
Cause' I blink and you have aged another day