Dog Years
From Grace & Grit
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About the Song
“Dog Years” is a warm, groove-driven country reflection on living each day fully through a dog’s eyes. With lyrics that contrast calendars and birthdays against porch sunsets, truck rides, and love, it turns gratitude into a quietly uplifting perspective on time and what matters most.
Song Details
- Album
- Grace & Grit
- Track
- 26
- Release Date
- September 18, 2026
- Runtime
- 02:43
- Genre
- Country
- Influences
- Contemporary country, Country pop
- Mood
- This record is reflective, warm, hopeful, grateful, lighthearted, and quietly uplifting.
- Themes
- Themes include living in the moment, love and companionship, pet devotion, reframing time and aging, gratitude, simple joy, and faith-informed perspective.
- BPM
- 98
- Time Signature
- 4/4
Lyrics
Dog Years
Wish God would've gave 'em more
Dog Years
Every day's worth livin' for
Dog Years
Maybe we been countin' wrong
Dog Years
They had it right all along
Post Hook
While we're countin' calendars
Chasin' another day
They're busy livin'
Every minute all the way
He don't care what time it is
Long as I pull in that drive
Tail starts thumpin', eyes light up
Like it's Christmas every night
One old tennis ball'll do
One more ride with the windows down
Makes me wonder who's got it figured out
Every time he's around
Dog Years
Wish God would've gave 'em more
Dog Years
Every day's worth livin' for
Dog Years
Maybe we been countin' wrong
Dog Years
They had it right all along
Post Hook
While we're countin' calendars
Chasin' another day
They're busy livin'
Every minute all the way
They don't measure life by birthdays
Or another trip 'round the sun
They measure it by front porch sunsets
Truck rides, sticks, and who they love
Never worried 'bout tomorrow
Never haunted by yesterday
It's like the shortest lives
Are the fullest in every way
If love could buy time
Dogs would bury us all
They'd be waitin' at the door
Long after we were gone
Maybe Heaven knows something
That we ain't learned down here
Maybe life ain't even measured
By the number of years
Dog Years
Wish God would've gave 'em more
Dog Years
Every day's worth livin' for
Dog Years
Maybe we been countin' wrong
Dog Years
They had it right all along
Post Hook
While we're countin' calendars
Chasin' another day
They're busy livin'
Every minute all the way
Maybe they ain't got fewer years...
They just got better ones.
Wish God would've gave 'em more
Dog Years
Every day's worth livin' for
Dog Years
Maybe we been countin' wrong
Dog Years
They had it right all along
Post Hook
While we're countin' calendars
Chasin' another day
They're busy livin'
Every minute all the way
He don't care what time it is
Long as I pull in that drive
Tail starts thumpin', eyes light up
Like it's Christmas every night
One old tennis ball'll do
One more ride with the windows down
Makes me wonder who's got it figured out
Every time he's around
Dog Years
Wish God would've gave 'em more
Dog Years
Every day's worth livin' for
Dog Years
Maybe we been countin' wrong
Dog Years
They had it right all along
Post Hook
While we're countin' calendars
Chasin' another day
They're busy livin'
Every minute all the way
They don't measure life by birthdays
Or another trip 'round the sun
They measure it by front porch sunsets
Truck rides, sticks, and who they love
Never worried 'bout tomorrow
Never haunted by yesterday
It's like the shortest lives
Are the fullest in every way
If love could buy time
Dogs would bury us all
They'd be waitin' at the door
Long after we were gone
Maybe Heaven knows something
That we ain't learned down here
Maybe life ain't even measured
By the number of years
Dog Years
Wish God would've gave 'em more
Dog Years
Every day's worth livin' for
Dog Years
Maybe we been countin' wrong
Dog Years
They had it right all along
Post Hook
While we're countin' calendars
Chasin' another day
They're busy livin'
Every minute all the way
Maybe they ain't got fewer years...
They just got better ones.