Watching You (Rodney Atkins song)
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| Single by Rodney Atkins from the album If You're Going Through Hell |
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| Released | September 2006 | ||||
| Genre | Country | ||||
| Length | 3:49 | ||||
| Label | Curb | ||||
| Writer(s) | Rodney Atkins, Steve Dean, Brian Gene White | ||||
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"Watching You" is a single by country music artist Rodney Atkins. Released in late 2006, the single became Rodney's second Number One single on the Billboard U.S. Hot Country Songs chart. "Watching You" was named the No. 1 song of 2007 on the Billboard magazine year-end countdown chart.
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The song portrays two examples of a son learning from his father. In the first verse, the father and son are in the car together, driving through town. The son is eating a Happy Meal in the passenger seat, just as the father slams on the brakes at a red light, causing the boy to spill his food all over himself and utter "a four letter word / [That] started with “S”". Upon hearing the son utter a profanity, the father asks where his son learned such language; the boy then responds with, "I've been watching you, dad, ain't that cool / I'm your buckaroo, I wanna be like you".
In the second verse, the father heads out to his barn and begins to pray ("Lord, please help me help my stupid self"). Still later, at bedtime, the boy kneels beside his bed to pray, with his father watching. Upon hearing the boy's prayers, the father asks, "Where'd you learn to pray like that?", to which the boy again responds again by saying that he's been watching his father. The father then responds by hugging his son and stating his pride in the boy's growing up.
The song was inspired by Rodney's son, Elijah. After having found out that Elijah had been singing Atkins' earlier hit "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)" to his teachers, he then had to explain to his son that it "might not be appropriate for him to be singing that in school".[1][2]
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The video starts out with Rodney's son skipping in front of his daddy. Rodney and his son ride off to go home in his dad's truck. Then, somewhere out in the open, Rodney sings the song while playing his guitar. When Rodney came to a traffic light, hitting the brakes, fries scattered everywhere in the truck. The son then blurts out the word "shit", and Rodney is concerned.
The second verse, Rodney is in the barn, praying. His son comes up sneaking on him and "watching" him. Then, later that night, Rodney's son goes to bed. When his father left the room, the boy started praying. Rodney then asks the boy where he learned to "pray like that".
Rodney then had tears in his eyes and hugged his son. The son is in his father's bed laying down with him. The next morning, his son dressed up as a superhero, only to have his father watch him. Rodney is happy that his son is grown up.
Elijah also portrays the child in the song's video; as a result, he is also gaining recognition in public.[3]
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| Chart (2006 - 2007) | Peak Position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 36 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 57 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs | 47 |
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[edit] Succession
| Preceded by "She's Everything" by Brad Paisley |
Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one single January 27-February 17, 2007 |
Succeeded by "It Just Comes Natural" by George Strait |
| Preceded by "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)" by Rodney Atkins |
Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one single of the year 2007 |
Succeeded by incumbent |
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