I don't know what the story behind Kurt Elling's "A New Body and Soul" is, but it clearly is a father addressing his new child, and bits of it make me wonder if his story is not so dissimilar to ours.

"Waiting too long for a sign you would come was what
nearly killed the spirit in the house within me
and when you appeared you brought an answer after praying
like a sailor sighting landfall on horizons of green"

and much later

"And that’s why our teachers teach 'The Itsy Bitsy Spider'
to the smallest ones:
We need a fight song to keep us moving along
I should’ve sung it when thinking you gone.
You weren’t lost / you were coming"

There are certainly days when I could use a fight song myself...