In a 2013 interview with Songfacts, Stapp said of the song: In later years Stapp would not use 'he' or 'she' in reference to the child but rather 'they' to refer to both his sons and daughter.
This would eventually be changed when Stapp found out he would be having a son. The original lyrics to the song were written from the perspective of having a daughter, even though his wife was pregnant with a boy, as Stapp used 'she' during early live performances. Stapp wrote the lyrics when he found out, with great surprise, that he was going to be a father. Stapp overheard guitarist Mark Tremonti playing and loved what he heard so much that he ran in and told Tremonti to just keep playing as Stapp began singing his lyrics.
According to Stapp the song was written in 15 minutes at soundcheck. Scott Stapp began writing the lyrics to the song in early 1998 during the My Own Prison tour, when he found out that his then wife Hillaree Burns was pregnant with his first child, Jagger.
